ITHACA, N.Y. -- In response to the Sept. 11 attacks, Cornell University is offering a new course for the 2002 spring semester that will take a wide-ranging look at the issues of terrorism, religious warfare, global conflict and civil liberties.

"This new course presents an opportunity to review and discuss issues concerning global development and its relationship to conflict and terrorism," says James E. Haldeman, senior associate director of International Programs in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and one of the class's organizers.

Sixteen faculty members have signed on to lecture and lead panel discussions in the class. As examples of the breadth of material to be covered, Philip McMichael, professor and chair of rural sociology, will lead the class in globalization and international economics; and Risa Lieberwitz, professor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, will focus on civil liberties.

Other course themes include: terrorism, culture and religious warfare; U.S. foreign policy; the Middle East; media coverage and public opinion; international and domestic law; agro- and bio-terrorism, and the food system and its vulnerability; poverty; refugees; and petroleum politics. The class, for enrolled students, meets every Monday from 7:30 p.m. to

9:30 p.m., beginning Jan. 21.

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EDITORS: If you or a reporter would like to sit in on one or more of these lectures, please contact Blaine Friedlander at Cornell News Service, (607) 255-3290, for credentials.