LBR STD 179B
Doing Democracy: Social Movements, Grassroots Politics, and Community Organizing
Description: (Formerly numbered Labor and Workplace Studies 179B.) Lecture, three hours. Focus on community organizing and social movements as mechanisms that have been adopted by marginalized or excluded sectors and groups of society to promote their interests and express their needs. Identification of fundamental characteristics of effective and responsive democratic regime. Summarization of critiques that describe means by which those elements are being undermined in current period. Focus on those efforts to promote social justice as basis for inclusive and responsive form of popular sovereignty through politics of social movements and community organizing. Study of various forms of social movements and different models of and approaches to community organizing and their relationship to democratic governance. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Winter 2021 - This class was genuinely *so* amazing! I learned so much and had wonderful discussions with classmates & Dr. Rocco about the importance of grassroots movements and community organizing. Rocco is so smart, caring, and overall just wonderful. He shares about his own experiences with organizing, which is really insightful and inspiring. If you're interested in community organizing either personally or professionally, I definitely recommend taking this course! In terms of the course itself, the workload and difficulty was pretty balanced. While it's very reading-based, Rocco's lectures really help to break down the readings into the main points. The course is designed to ensure that students do the readings and understand them, so the main assignment was weekly summaries (which he calls "talking points") on the readings. The final was an 8-10 page comparative paper. A midterm was listed on the syllabus, however, it was cancelled.
Winter 2021 - This class was genuinely *so* amazing! I learned so much and had wonderful discussions with classmates & Dr. Rocco about the importance of grassroots movements and community organizing. Rocco is so smart, caring, and overall just wonderful. He shares about his own experiences with organizing, which is really insightful and inspiring. If you're interested in community organizing either personally or professionally, I definitely recommend taking this course! In terms of the course itself, the workload and difficulty was pretty balanced. While it's very reading-based, Rocco's lectures really help to break down the readings into the main points. The course is designed to ensure that students do the readings and understand them, so the main assignment was weekly summaries (which he calls "talking points") on the readings. The final was an 8-10 page comparative paper. A midterm was listed on the syllabus, however, it was cancelled.
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