2021-2022 Undergraduate Bulletin

ECO 207 Movements for Economic Justice

3 hours

At the heart of every justice movement lies an economic argument. This course helps students to act locally and think globally about economic issues that affect their lives, their communities, and their planet. To experience the power of collective economic action students will work cooperatively to accomplish shared goals. Topics and case studies will include historic and contemporaneous social movements including the Labor Movement for an Eight Hour Workday, The Civil Rights Movement embodied by the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and the Movement to Reverse Global Warming.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENG 101

Notes

This course satisfies the John Jay College Option: Justice and the Individual (200-level) area of the Gen Ed Program.