Jun 17, 2024  
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2016-17 
    
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2016-17 [Archived Catalog]

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POLS 4465 - Gandhi and King: Nonviolence as Philosophy and Strategy


This course provides a view of nonviolence as an end and personal style, although emphasis is placed on nonviolence as a means of political and social resistance to oppression. This course investigates the lives and work of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. as the point of entry for giving students an opportunity to integrate and apply the theories and practice of nonviolence or other alternative paradigms into real-life conflict situations, including their own life experiences. An interdisciplinary analysis of nonviolence is employed.

Requisites: (POLS 1600 or 6 hours in POLS) and Sr
Credit Hours: 3.0
General Education Code: T3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I



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