PS 1327 - POLITICS OF REVOLUTION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Politics is often about conflict, but sometimes that conflict takes place within legislative bodies and other times in the streets. Most of what we study in political science courses focuses on conflict within the electoral framework, but this course asks what happens when citizens take conflict into their own hands. This course will examine the conditions that prompt people to organize on behalf of their collective interests, how protest movements evolve, and under what conditions they succeed. The first half of the class will cover theoretical topics: the causes, strategies, and consequences of protest activity. The second half of the class will focus on types of protest (political protests, revolutionary movements, social movements, riots, and guerrillas) through comparative case studies. Most case studies in class will be based on examples within the Western hemisphere (North, central, South America, and the Caribbean) - a geographical region with an enormous variety of types, causes, and consequences of protest movements - but students will be encouraged to become independently familiar with protest movements around the world.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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