Political Activism: Engagement and Resistance

Fall & Spring | 3 credits | Elective
Majors: International Relations, Legal Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology

This course will explore the relationship between thought and action. This is a project-based course on leadership and taking action in your world.  Students will learn the necessity of careful analysis and research in order to carry out leadership roles.  Taking indignation as a point of departure and building on the analysis of economy, work, climate, poverty, and hunger, they will prepare an activist project and agenda.

Instructors

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Housing Feature: Global Action House

Request to live in a Learning & Living Community next semester with fellow students who enjoy civic engagement and that wish to be active with an international NGO while here.

Click here to read more about the Global Action House!

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