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GOVT103
Politics and Power: Democracy and the Civil Rights Movement
GOVT103 SP
Spring 97 Availability (Last Updated on Sat Mar 8 05:00:06 EST 1997
)
Section Limit Enrollment Available
01 15 15 0
In this course, we will study the Civil Rights Movement of
the 1960's 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: Seminar
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Gen Ed Area & Dept: SBS GOVT
Prerequisites:
None
- Section 01
- Brown, L
- Times: .T.T... 10:00AM;
- Grading Mode: A/F
- Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 0, Jr: 0, So: 0, Fr: 1
- No Major Preference Given
Last Updated on MAR-10-1997
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