Overview
Description
Popular revolt and protest is often driven by, or justified through, economic frustration. This course looks at economic-based protest movements from the right (anti-tax in California, anti-PT in Brazil ) the left (workers’ rights, anti-Apartheid) and those that transcend normal dichotomies (Brexit, Mouvement des gilets jaunes, Arab Uprisings). We will explore how conventional economic actors (such as business and labor) react to and change through these new movements.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Junior or Senior standing.
ENG 102CH 201CH 202CH 203CH 212PSC 211
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
ENG 102; CH 201 or CH 202 or CH 203 or CH 212; PSC 211; Junior or Senior standing.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Core
CO11
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing.
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- define the main theories used by political scientists to explain protest.
- classify different protest movements by their ideology, attitude, and goals.
- demonstrate in exams and essays a mastery of these theories and an understanding of how they change.
- critically reflect on student, labor, and economic protests in global contexts, across multiple countries.
- examine how labor and business react to different forms of pressure.
- explain how economic protest movements differ from other types of protest and predict how social partners might react to new movements in different global contexts.