A comprehensive exploration into belief in mis/disinformation and conspiracy theories that is instrumental in understanding radicalization in modern societies.

This course provides a comprehensive look at global jihadist movements, with specific focus on the groups Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. At the completion of this course, students will have an in-depth understanding of historical and contemporary jihadist movements and a better understanding of tools to counter such groups.

Social networks are connections between nodes (actors) and links (connections between nodes). Social network analysis (SNA) is a process of studying those nodes and links with a systematic, quantitative approach to better understand how networks are constructed, what networks are capable of, and how networks can be disrupted. This course covers SNA using UCINET, a popular SNA tool to systematically understand terrorist connections in such way that allows for informed decisions on terrorist network disruption.