GOVT 3785

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GOVT 3785
Civil Disobedience

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

This course examines controversies in the theory and history of civil disobedience. Do citizens have obligations to obey unjust laws? Can law breaking ever be civil rather than criminal? Do disruptive protests endanger democracy or strengthen the rule of law? How do acts of protest influence public opinion and policy? How is the distinction between violence and nonviolence politically constructed and contested? We will study classical writings and contemporary scholarship in pursuit of answers to these questions and related debates concerning the rule of law, conscientious objection, the uses of civility and incivility, punishment and responsibility, as well as whistleblowing, direct action, strikes, sabotage, hacktivism, and rioting.


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When Offered Spring.

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 3785, PHIL 2945

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9865 GOVT 3785   LEC 001

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    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Livingston, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9867 GOVT 3785   DIS 201

  •  
    • M
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Livingston, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9868 GOVT 3785   DIS 202

  •  
    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Livingston, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9869 GOVT 3785   DIS 203

  •  
    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Livingston, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9870 GOVT 3785   DIS 204

  •  
    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Livingston, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person