HIST-19910. Social Movements in Global Perspective This course examines the interaction between individuals, societies, cultures, and socio-political environments from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The course aims to give us a better understanding of how men and women experience life as individuals and, at the same time, as members of cultural systems that shape their personalities, behaviors, and perceptions of their social surroundings. In this course, we will explore what it means to be human, asking such vital questions as: Is there such a thing as human nature independent of society? How do worldviews play a role in shaping the value systems, thought patterns, and actions of both individuals and societies? Are individuals free actors and makers of their own destinies or the products of historically determined conditions? What causes men and women to initiate social, religious or political movements? How do they capture the public imaginations to garner a mass following and remake their times a
- Teacher: Tibebe Eshete