Jul 07, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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POLS 4720 - Resistance, Reform, and Revolution
Explores the intertwined character of power and resistance. In the process, gain both an understanding of forms of power and resistance in everyday life, and to use such an understanding to negotiate the power in our own lives. Also explores how power is not only prohibitive, but productive; and attempts to figure out what that means for our quests to live good lives and to experience freedom.
Requisites: 6 Hours in POLS
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to analyze literature and practices of social and political change, which will enable the students to identify the motivations and opportunities for struggle.
- Students will be able to compare and contrast strategies for successful struggle and empowerment that range from everyday resistance to reform and revolution.
- Students will be able to identify a range of theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of power.
- Students will develop their own normative criteria by which to assess when struggle is ultimately ‘successful’ and when it fails.
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