Apr 15, 2026  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

PLSC 303: Social Movements


(1 Unit)
Prerequisities:  PLSC 102   or PLSC 103  
Why do people protest? The course examines nonviolent methods and violent revolutions.  Proceeds by employing an interdisciplinary approach to understanding collective actions in a global comparative context of transitioning and back sliding politics and societies.  Emphasizes the practices of nonviolence, grassroots people power movements, and transnational movements for peace, climate, justice, gender, equality, indigenous and other human rights.  Staff