Politics and Power: Democracy and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's
GOVT 103
Fall 2006 not offered
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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. |
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Essential Capabilities:
Speaking, Writing |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS GOVT |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: None |
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
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Examinations and Assignments:
Two papers, journal final exam. |
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