POL 251 - Social Movements

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

Prerequisites: POL 100, 105 or 111 or permission of the instructor.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 theseLeBlanc, Eastwood.