First-Year Seminar: The Origins and Consequences of 9/11

In this first-year seminar students will study the worst attack on the United States since the Civil War, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. The course will explore how the terrorist attacks occurred and why the U.S. intelligence community and policymakers failed to prevent them; American reactions at home and abroad; the effect on American government and politics, and the aftermath of the attacks and American reactions in the Middle East, and the world. Students may not receive credit for both PWAD 50 and PWAD 470 .