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Dec 26, 2024
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POLS 5720 - Resistance, Reform, and Revolution
Explores the intertwined character of power and resistance. In the process, gain both an understanding of forms of power and resistance in everyday life, and to use such an understanding to negotiate the power in our own lives. Also explores how power is not only prohibitive, but productive; and attempts to figure out what that means for our quests to live good lives and to experience freedom.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to analyze literatures as well as practices of social and political change with an eye to identifying the motivations and historically contingent opportunities for struggle, the relationships between power and empowerment.
- Students will be able to compare and contrast strategies for successful struggle and empowerment that range from everyday resistance to reform and revolution.
- Students will be able to identify a range of theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of power.
- Students will develop their own normative criteria by which to assess when struggle is ultimately successful and when it fails.
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