Social Movements

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course provides you with tools needed to engage in research on social movements and collective action. An important component of the course involves becoming familiar with core theoretical insights in the field. However, we will also devote time and energy to developing your own research projects and developing additional research questions that could form the basis of future research projects. We begin by considering micro-level foundations of collective action. We will move on to study the emergence of social movement activism. Importantly, we also consider questions about how, and if, social movements matter in bringing about social change (e.g., either intentional or unintended consequences of activism).