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    This document provides an overview of the Sociology 223: Social Movements course taught by Professor Betsy Leondar-Wright on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30-4:45 pm. The course will examine social movement theories and apply them to historical and current cases, including the Civil Rights Movement, anti-apartheid movement, LGBT rights movement, Tea Party, and others. Students will study different social movements in depth and do presentations with photos. The class aims to bring social movements to life through films, activities, and guest stories.

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    This document provides an overview of the Sociology 223: Social Movements course taught by Professor Betsy Leondar-Wright on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30-4:45 pm. The course will examine social movement theories and apply them to historical and current cases, including the Civil Rights Movement, anti-apartheid movement, LGBT rights movement, Tea Party, and others. Students will study different social movements in depth and do presentations with photos. The class aims to bring social movements to life through films, activities, and guest stories.

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    About Social Movements

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    Gail LeondarWright
    This document provides an overview of the Sociology 223: Social Movements course taught by Professor Betsy Leondar-Wright on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30-4:45 pm. The course will examine social movement theories and apply them to historical and current cases, including the Civil Rights Movement, anti-apartheid movement, LGBT rights movement, Tea Party, and others. Students will study different social movements in depth and do presentations with photos. The class aims to bring social movements to life through films, activities, and guest stories.

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    Sociology 223: Social Movements

    Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30-4:45


    Professor Betsy Leondar-Wright
    How does activism work?

    Social movement theorists drew general lessons from


    historical cases, which we can then apply to today’s
    issues.

    Scholars’ ideas about:

    •When do movements
    arise?

    •Why success?

    •Why failure?
    Case #1: The Civil Rights Movement
    The most famous social movement in history
    •How did it succeed in wiping out legal segregation?
    •Why didn’t it succeed in eliminating racism?
    Other cases we’ll study:

    Anti-apartheid movement
    AIDS action and other LGBT
    Tea Party and other right-wing movements
    A lively, insightful book
    full of stories...

    with a theory of
    movement stages
    Bringing movements to life in the classroom:

    • Films
    • My own activist stories
    • Simulation games
    • Student presentations with photos
    Each student will study a different movement
    and do a presentation with photos

    • Black Lives Matter


    • Climate change
    • White nationalism
    • Occupy Wall Street
    • Labor history
    • Feminism
    • United Farm Workers
    • Black Panthers
    I hope you’ll join us!

    This class will be so much better with Lasell


    Village residents.

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