Social Movements and Organizing

3 credits · Undergraduate

The current crises of inequality, democracy, racial and political division, and climate change are fomenting social movements in the United States and around the world. How do social movements grow and sustain? How do social movements capture national attention that motivates everyday people including students to mobilize for social change? This class will provide students with a grounding in the literature of social movement theory and history, with a special emphasis on social movements led by African American, Latinx, indigenous, and Asian Pacific Islander communities for equity. The class will also introduce students basics of social movement organizing, mobilizing unlikely voters through organizing technique and theory of non-violence.