CONTENTIOUS POLITICS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing and ( POLI SCI 140 or INTL ST 101 ) or graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Examine how social movements, revolutions, and riots continually shape and re-shape the world around us. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Evaluate and apply dominant theoretical approaches to understanding contention in politics. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Study empirical cases of contentious politics throughout the world. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Assess the state of a body of scholarly literature related to course themes, identify gaps in that literature, and formulate an original research question in the context of those gaps. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Examine how social movements, revolutions, and riots continually shape and re-shape the world around us. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Evaluate and apply dominant theoretical approaches to understanding contention in politics. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Study empirical cases of contentious politics throughout the world. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Assess the state of a body of scholarly literature related to course themes, identify gaps in that literature, and formulate an original research question in the context of those gaps. Audience: Graduate