HIST 392 - History of Non-Violent Protests in the Twentieth Century

3 Credits
3 hours per week.

Non-violence has been used frequently in the twentieth century as a tool for pursuing justice, creating social change, resolving cultural conflict and alleviating international strife. Leaders of social movements in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia have employed it. Dr. Martin Luther King and Mohandas Gandhi are two examples. Students who take this course will, using documentary source material, engage in case studies of selected non-violent initiatives. As background they will become familiar with the basic literature of non-violent practice and theory.

Offered (AS NEEDED)