Writing 103 - Narratives of Resistance,Change and Activism

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Haverford College

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HU P. Gaffney From the Dandi Salt March of 1930 to the 2000 Water Riots in Bolivia, civil disobedience and other forms of resistance have had a major impact on social, political and economic relations worldwide. This course will examine the strategies of a number of suffragist and civil rights movements, with an aim to understanding whether (and how) they have succeeded in overcoming inequality and social injustice with regard to race, gender, class and religion. What does a culture of resistance aim to achieve Are there many movements, or do all movements strive to achieve the same goal What are the philosophical (but also practical) differences between violent and non-violent resistance How do we distinguish the "message" of a movement from the rhetorical strategies it deploys to mobilize support The course will include speeches, films, songs and texts by Mohandas Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Malcom X, Spike Lee, Che Guevara, Ozomatli, Oscar Olivera and Angela Davis. Prerequisite: Open only to first year students as assigned by the Director of College Writing. This is a first-semester course with individual tutorials that prepares students for a second-semester topic-based or discipline-based writing. Enrollment limited to 10 students.

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.haverford.edu

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(610) 896-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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