I don’t actually mind the assignment. Winning requires that you understand the enemy and what motivates them. I don’t see the assignment as supporting the terrorist beliefs, just recognizing what those beliefs are.
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
If it is used much as an oncologist studying cancer then I have no problem, much like the Navy's War Plan Orange trying to get inside the Japanese's heads before WW 2. On the other hand I fear anything coming from a modern college will be sympathetic to the terrorists.
When I was in college we had a terrorism class were the topics and pro or con were distributed randomly. An Air Force major got the pro nuclear terrorism paper and he gave a very good report on asymmetrical warfare and deterrence. At the end the professor then asked for the major's personal opinion on the paper. The major said "what a load of horses***".
I remember a school assignment with three papers, way back in my youth. We had to write about Pearl Harbor from an American, Japanese, and from a Swiss point of view. For me, the hardest to figure out were the Swiss.