JAN 302 - Bay Area Social Justice Movements and Student Leadership

Instructor(s):  Wise, Andrea
Email:  amw34@stmarys-ca.edu

Through the lenses of power, resistance, and identity, this course provides an introduction to American social movements from the 1950s to the present, with a particular focus on student activism and LGBTQ movements. The San Francisco Bay Area has been fertile ground for social justice movements for three generations. This is a discussion-based local travel and leadership course examining the unique role of Bay Area political structures and mobilizing institutions as the basis for diverse movements. We will examine questions that pertain to all protest movements (leadership, mobilization, organization, strategy, and consciousness), and students will have the opportunity to explore their own roles in creating change in community. Through our field trips, we will explore neighborhoods in the Bay Area and the nationally significant justice movements that emerged in those places.
  
We will be taking two trips during the class. Details about transportation, food, etc will be given during the second week of the class. We will visit San Francisco and the East Bay cities of Berkeley and Oakland on January 14th and 16th. Students must be available from 9AM to 5PM on each of those days.
 

Prerequisites & Notes
None

Credits: 3-CU