Iraqi troops and soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division board a Black Hawk helicopter for a mission near Tikrit. (Image courtesy of Spc. Teddy Wade and taken from the U.S. Army Web site: http://www.army.mil/.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Hugh Gusterson
MIT Course Number
21A.217
As Taught In
Fall 2004
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This class has been reorganized to focus primarily on the War in Iraq. As in previous years, the class still examines war in cross-cultural perspective, asking whether war is intrinsic to human nature, what causes war, how particular cultural experiences of war differ, and how war has affected American culture.