The Study of Hate

*This is a student-taught class by Audrey Crumb. Mary "Tuti" Baker is the faculty sponsor.

This course was created to look at hate groups from an academic perspective. Using an interdisciplinary lens blending both sociology and psychology, we will analyze hate groups over time, their methodologies of recruitment, their differing ideologies and purposes, how they raise children, and more. This class does not satisfy Fairhaven core or GURs, but it can be used within a concentration major. This is a four-credit course, and students should expect to complete four hours of work in-class per week along with eight hours of work outside of class per week. The course will begin by learning what qualifies as “hate.” Who do hate groups target? Are certain people more susceptible to hate groups than others? We will then transition into learning about the core components of hate groups and what makes them effective. During midterms, we will put this information together and learn about the “Big Five Groups”, pillar groups that inspired the format of all hate groups that followed. We will end the course with modern-day hate groups to deeply understand how hate groups have morphed into the mainstream.