POL 3620 Social Movements and Political Change

This course explores the theory and practice of social (or people’s) movements to achieve political results. It examines at least one social movement in depth and several others in less depth, seeking answers to the following questions: Why do people’s movements arise when and where they do? What kinds of resources, strategies and tactics do they employ? How do they relate to conventional politics? How do they affect their participants and the larger society? Why do some succeed and others fail? Prerequisite(s): POL 1100 OR POL 1200
Credits: 3.0