Jul 07, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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POLS 4465 - Gandhi and King: Nonviolence as Philosophy and Strategy
This course provides a view of nonviolence as an end and personal style, although emphasis is placed on nonviolence as a means of political and social resistance to oppression. This course investigates the lives and work of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. as the point of entry for giving students an opportunity to integrate and apply the theories and practice of nonviolence or other alternative paradigms into real-life conflict situations, including their own life experiences. An interdisciplinary analysis of nonviolence is employed.
Requisites: (POLS 1600 or 6 hours in POLS) and Sr
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS Capstone: Capstone or Culminating Experience
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Compare and contrast the lives and work of Gandhi and King as this pertains to nonviolent resistance.
- Describe and critically analyze the major philosophical and conceptual underpinnings of Gandhi and Kings worldviews as this pertains to nonviolence.
- Describe the major developmental milestones in Gandhi and Kings lives as this pertains to their views and practices of nonviolence.
- Design nonviolent alternatives to using violence in real-world conflict scenarios at both the interpersonal and group levels.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of Gandhi and Kings various nonviolent resistance campaigns.
- Explain and analyze the effectiveness of using nonviolent resistance to oppression.
- Explain and differentiate the theoretical differences and similarities between violence and nonviolence.
- List the different types of violence and nonviolence.
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