History 201-206 seminars are open to history majors only during pre-registration. If the course does not reach its enrollment maximum, it will be open to all students beginning with drop/add on a first-come first-serve basis.
HIST 203 Protest Movements and Democratic Change, 1750-Present
Alpaugh
Taught as schedule allows (consult the Course Directory)
SEM | PRE-1800
From the Sons of Liberty to the Tea Party movement, from Parisian Revolutionary sans-culottes to the contemporary immigrant rights sans-papiers, protest movements continue to play a major political role in political change. Since the eighteenth century's Age of Revolutions, broadly-based social movements have increasingly impacted world politics and culture. Using historical, sociological, and political science-based methods, this course will look at the development of such campaigns, covering subjects from revolutionary protest movements to reform campaigns and counter-agitation, while also looking at the diffusion of such tactics from Western Europe and the United States across the world. Protesters from Tiananmen Square to New York City still employ many of the same tactics first developed in the eighteenth century. Issues to be discussed will include the complicated relationships between social movements and democracy, and the relationships between such movements and large-scale social change.
Course Syllabus (PDF)
