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UTISO: Security Awareness Modules
These modules are primarily intended to be accessed by UT students and employees. These modules do not satisfy the Security Awareness training requirement for employees, which is currently available via UTLearn.
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Sp24 - 2-PROTEST/REVLUTN IN E EUROPE (42515)
This seminar focuses on the causes, specific patterns, and modes of mobilization, protest, and regime change in Eastern Europe in a comparative historical context from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution to the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution. The seminar will scrutinize and compare the specific national roots of discontent, mechanics of mass mobilization, patterns of democratic uprisings, and the nature of internal and external responses at national elite and mass levels in the broader context of the Cold War. It will also analyze the interactions with external actors, foreign policy and security interests involved, and actual outcomes and impact of these events in the context of respective countries’ socialist and post-socialist pathways. In search of answers as to why and how Eastern Europeans protest and rebel and critically evaluate what are the results of these from a historical perspective, we will combine a mix of traditional approaches borrowing conceptual instrumentation from the fields of political science and history pertinent to continuity and change in Eastern Europe. In addition, as students will be engaged in the empirical analysis of primary declassified archived national security, intelligence, and diplomacy relevant material, elements of the theory of intelligence will be employed in evaluating Western and Eastern respective perceptions, analysis, and estimation of processes and expected outcomes. Students will be encouraged to investigate, examine, and interpret the archival data that reflects the causes, roots, and expected outcomes of protests and revolutions in Eastern Europe through the lenses of American diplomacy, intelligence, and security apparatus in search of analytical biases, detection, and specific interpretations of Soviet and Russian “active measures” applied in response to anticipated or active protest and mobilization. The thematic seminar aims to combine multiple theoretical approaches with practical applications in developing an informed appreciation and deeper understanding of the internal root causes and “mechanics” of Eastern European protest and mobilization strategies, as well as their Western “reflection” through the lenses of the national security and intelligence apparatus, literature, and culture as sources in aiding subsequent policy shifts and responses.
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RHE 306: Shanafelt (Spring 2024)
RHE 306: Rhetoric & Writing Spring Term 2024 January 16 - May 6, 2024 PAR 6 No Final Exam!