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Offered:
Instructor: Lilly Havstad
Meeting time: Wednesday, 9:45-11:45 am
What is the role of the student in the struggle for global justice? How does student activism differ from other forms of activism, and how does it intersect? Has student activism changed over time, and do different student movements exhibit different characteristics? This course will explore the role that students have played and continue to play in social justice movements around our world. Throughout our transnational study of student mobilization over time, we will discuss the role that student movements play in altering social values, practices, and institutions. Through our engagement with primary sources including protest music, literature, oral histories, and film, alongside our reading of secondary sources including academic and public scholarship, some of the topics we will discuss include anti-Vietnam War activism; the intersection of U.S. Civil Rights and anti-apartheid activism in South Africa; and climate justice movements.