POLI 16

About this course

This course offers both applied and theoretical learning for students of social justice, serving as a comparative survey of protest movements since the 1960s. It provides an introductory, comparative, and interdisciplinary study of social and political struggles among Mexican American, African American, Asian American, and white working-class communities from 1960 to the present day. Throughout the course, there is a focus on tracing the development of these protest movements in response to various forms of inequality, including racial, class, gender, ecological, and political disparities within the context of U.S. politics and history. Moreover, the course critically examines both internal and external factors contributing to the rise and fall of social and political movements. Special attention is given to the intersectionality of ecology, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, class, and sexual orientation within contemporary U.S. politics.

Enrollment availability changes frequently. Confirm status in the official FHDA registration system before enrolling.

Prerequisites

The De Anza catalog lists no prerequisite for this course.

Advisory: “ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000H or ESL D005.”

Transfer pathways that use POLI 16

ASSIST maps POLI 16 to a requirement in 13 published pathways from De Anza College.

• Political ScienceDe Anza → UC Irvine
• SociologyDe Anza → UC Irvine
• SociologyDe Anza → UC Santa Barbara
• American StudiesDe Anza → UC Berkeley
• ArchitectureDe Anza → UC Berkeley
• Environmental Economics and PolicyDe Anza → UC Berkeley
• Environmental SciencesDe Anza → UC Berkeley
• Genetics and Plant BiologyDe Anza → UC Berkeley
• Landscape ArchitectureDe Anza → UC Berkeley
• Microbial BiologyDe Anza → UC Berkeley
• Molecular Environmental BiologyDe Anza → UC Berkeley
• Nutrition & Metabolic BiologyDe Anza → UC Berkeley
• Society and EnvironmentDe Anza → UC Berkeley