CAEP 3000 — Contemporary College Student Activism

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath SI

Explores college student activism from historical foundations, present-day causes, and the possible burgeoning motivations for student activism. Describes student movements in the context of the times in which they exist─such as free speech, antiwar, Occupy Wall Street, and Black Lives Matter─as well as in the time of a pandemic and social unrest. Presents activism as college student development and as a continuing catalyst for changing higher education. Considers the role of media and social media in student activism. Explores the significance of quasi/backlash student movements, such as the white student scholarship movement. Offers students an opportunity to work in task groups to think critically about the next generation of student activism.

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