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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

PO 340 - Social Movements and Contentious Politics


This course provides a theoretical and empirical exploration of social movements and contentious politics. We will focus especially on North American and European approaches to social movement theory and study a variety of cases of national and transnational mobilization and protest, from the U.S. Civil Rights Movement to the global justice movement.

Credits: 4

LSC/Core: Global Issues that Impact the Common Good/ History & Society AND Engaging Diverse Identities OR Junior Seminar AND Engaging Diverse Identities