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Academic Year 2000/2001

Politics and Power: Democracy and the Civil Rights Movement
GOVT 103 SP

In this course, we will study the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and the struggle for racial equality today in light of the questions and issues it raises for American ideology and democratic theory and practice. We will look at assumptions about the American political process and the distribution of power, the role of the elite and ordinary citizen, and the system's response to challenges and change, focusing in particular on how relations of power and powerlessness are played out in the larger social and political order.

MAJOR READINGS

THE STRUGGLE FOR BLACK EQUALITY (SFBE), Harvard Sitkoff THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X, as told to Alex Haley BLACK PROTEST: HISTORY, DOCUMENTS AND ANALYSES, 1619 TO THE PRESENT, Joanne Grant

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Two short papers, journal final exam.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS GOVT    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001

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