LIBS 309 - Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Extraordinary Violence

3 Credit(s)
3 Lecture Hour(s)
0 Lab Hour(s)

This course composes a critical study of the notion of “evil” by considering how the term has been employed historically to explain and sometimes justify radical violence such as genocide. It will consider the multi-disciplinary spectrum of theories that seek to explain how ordinary people come to participate in extraordinary acts of brutality and mass murder of their fellow human beings.