Course Synopsis and Objectives
Course Synopsis
This team-taught course draws on the expertise of a variety of transnational activists, as well as Knox and outside faculty; and is overseen by one coordinating-integrating professor. Topics covered include a variety of methodological approaches to activism: from environmental justice activism to prison abolition to the role of the arts and humanities as agents for change. We explore the power and limits of Peace and Social Justice resistance (s). The course is one of two required courses for the Peace and Justice Minor.
Student Learning Goals:
- Understand “how-to” concepts of organizing effective human-powered resistance across a range of sociopolitical topics.
- Map out the norms, patterns, language, and beliefs prevalent in activist paradigms.
- Possess a basic grasp of resistance across sociopolitical topics.
- Design an explicit activist campaign or ethnographic project that recognizes the nuances, strengths, weaknesses, and contradictions in Peace and Social Justice resistance.
- Teacher: Leanne Trapedo Sims