2013-2014 University Catalog 
  
2013-2014 University Catalog

SOCI 307 - Social Movements and Political Protest

Credits: 3 (NR)
Explores processes for organizing resistance to current social and power arrangements, from terrorism to nonviolent civil resistance to create alternative institutions, policies, or leadership that promote human rights and social justice. Uses historical and contemporary case studies of local and global change to explore, how, why, and to what effect individuals have organized to protest the status quo and create social change.

Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week: 3
Hours of Lab or Studio per week: 0