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Social Activism, Democracy & Globalization: Perspective of the Global South PUBPOL 717

School: Public Policy
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Open to SW students a week or so after Ford students enroll. Interested students should email the instructor and cc Sarah Beyer ([email protected]), the Registrar at the Ford School, to ask for permission to enroll in these courses.
Course Description: How are the inherent and intersecting relations of power including inherent structures of dominance related to the experience of violence, oppression and resistance textured into the context of politics and policy making? This course investigates how multifaceted historical relationships of traumatic experience including Colonization, Slavery and Apartheid can be related to the ways in which we think about policy. This course takes a multidisciplinary approach to how the production of culture, ecology, psychology, law, economics and politics frames the sociology and historiography of the policymaking context. This course provides the opportunity for student's to improve their analytical abilities. Whilst the material content used in this course will have a global focus, local issues will also be considered.

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SectionInstructorDaysLocationU-M Class #
001Henry, Yazier-1210 WEILL27106

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