Objective
Teacher Objective
The teacher's objective is to teach a comprehensive unit on terrorism. This curriculum unit will focus on law enforcement responses to terrorism (state and federal) courts and corrections, including an overview of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and the most recent case of Boumediene, et al. v. Bush, decided by the United States Supreme Court in June 2008 that relate to enemy combatants from the "war on terror." Students will get an overview of the USA Patriot Act, a review of world political events associated to terrorist acts. This curriculum unit will define key terms associated with terrorism and analyze terrorist explanations for attacks upon America and other civil nations. Another important component to this unit will be on hate crimes against Arab Americans individuals of the Muslim faith, people that resemble Arab Americans and are not, and the avoidance of categorizing all Muslims as radical fundamentalist.
Student Objective
The student will better understand the complex issues involving terrorism, domestic and international responses to terrorism, hate crime distinctions, and hopefully a coherent rationale (if such is possible) of those who chose to become a terrorist. The student's responsibility will be to take the information offered in this curriculum unit and research the topic further. It is reasonable to expect the students to be able to apply this knowledge to their daily lives, but more specific to the legal field. The students' further objective will be to work hard in trying to understand the terminology associated with this topic. Not only should the student learn the terminology; but they should be able to analyze various points of view, in order to develop their own opinion and to critically think about the pros and cons of terrorism. The student should have a better understanding of the criminal justice system and its response to terrorism.
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