REVOLUTIONS AND SOCIAL CHANGE
An introduction to the spatial dimensions of social movements, social struggles, and radical social change. Provides a range of critical and theoretical perspectives for reading and interpreting space as a tool of social transformation. Explores a variety of historical examples from the nineteenth century to the present.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the key debates in Social and Radical Geography. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Demonstrate the basics of social movements, including their strategies, tactics, and spatialities. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Summarize the key issues in the recent history of social struggles. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Explain approaches to researching social struggles via academic and popular sources. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate the basics of creating academic scholarship on social struggles in a geographic context. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Produce academic scholarship on social struggles in a geographic context. Audience: Graduate 7. Use radical pedagogy for guiding classroom discussions. Audience: Graduate 8. Develop a personalized set of approaches to mediating challenging geographical and theoretical concepts for a broad range of learners. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the key debates in Social and Radical Geography. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Demonstrate the basics of social movements, including their strategies, tactics, and spatialities. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Summarize the key issues in the recent history of social struggles. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Explain approaches to researching social struggles via academic and popular sources. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate the basics of creating academic scholarship on social struggles in a geographic context. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Produce academic scholarship on social struggles in a geographic context. Audience: Graduate 7. Use radical pedagogy for guiding classroom discussions. Audience: Graduate 8. Develop a personalized set of approaches to mediating challenging geographical and theoretical concepts for a broad range of learners. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027