WGST 30203 Social Justice Organizing & Activism
Prerequisites: WGST 20003 or CRES 10103. This interdisciplinary course examines mass movements from an intersectional perspective, emphasizing how intersecting social identities (e.g. race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, citizenship status, etc.) influence how systemic oppressions are experienced and, thus, should shape the social economic, and political interventions employed in the name of social justice. The course incorporates empirically grounded and theoretical scholarship from multiple disciplines to consider diverse methods of mass movement organizing and mobilization on the local and/or global levels to shift power and privilege dynamics. Students will examine the philosophical, relational and logistical barriers to undertaking social justice organizing and activism, develop technical skills for building consensus across difference, and design their own organizing campaigns.