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About the Course
-The students will integrate into their professions an understanding and application of measures
for: prevention, response, and survival in the face of a new kind of domestic and international
terrorism as represented by the attacks in NYC, Littleton, Oklahoma City, and Jonesboro.
-The students will integrate into their professions an understanding and application of the
effects of physiological arousal upon humans faced with close-range interpersonal aggression.
-The students will integrate into their professions a knowledge of physiological arousal in close-
range interpersonal aggression in order to limit and prevent undesired physiological arousal in
close-range interpersonal aggression situations.
-The students will integrate into their professions a knowledge of physiological arousal in close-
range interpersonal aggression in order to limit and prevent post-traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD).
-The students will integrate into their professions a knowledge of stress inoculation to close-
range interpersonal aggression factors in order to limit and prevent undesired physiological
arousal in close-range interpersonal aggression situations.
-The student will integrate into their professions an understanding of (1) the physiological
effects of combat and (2) military violence enabling techniques, in order to explain the role of
media violence (in TV, movies and video games) in causing violent crime.
Your Instructor
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Dave Grossman
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman is an internationally recognized scholar, author, soldier, and speaker who is one of the world's foremost experts in the field of human aggression and the roots of violence and violent crime. Col. Grossman was a West Point Psychology Professor, Professor of Military Science, and an Army Ranger. He combined his experiences to become the founder of a new field of scientific endeavor that has been termed "killology."� In this new field, Col. Grossman has made revolutionary contributions to our understanding of killing in war, the psychological costs of war, the root causes of the current "virus"� of violent crime that is raging around the world, and the process of healing the victims of violence in war and peace. Col. Grossman has been called upon to write the entry on "Aggression and Violence"� in the Oxford Companion to American Military History, three entries in the Academic Press Encyclopedia of Violence, and numerous entries in scholarly journals, including the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.