POL 251 - Social Movements

(SOAN 251) FDR: SS4
Planned Offering: Winter
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: POL 100, 105 or 111 or instructor consent. A survey of American social movements, including an evaluation of competing theoretical approaches to the study of social movements and an examination of the strategies, successes, failures, and political and social consequences of the civil rights, labor, student, and women’s movements. Close attention is given to factors contributing to the rise and decline of these LeBlanc, Eastwood.