Spring 2002
This information effective
for Spring 2002.
Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.
Kresge
College
42D. Student
Directed Seminar: Religious Roots of Social Change
Spring 2002
Student Instructor:
Agatha Buell
Course Description:
Studying cases, including
the Catholic Worker's Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Anti-War
Movement, students will explore how modern changes in the U.S. have been religiously
motivated. Students will develop ideas about how religious communities could
currently enact social change.
Course Requirements:
- Attendance and participation
in class: 15%
- Completion of 8 (out
of 13) weekly reading responses (1-2 pages): 25%
- Group presentation (approx.
20 min.) addressing a social change movement that is not addressed in class.
Students will use ideas presented in class to evaluate and understand another
movement of their choice: 30%
- Final paper (6-8 pages)
in which students will apply the ideas brought up in class to our current
social situation and attempt to plan a social change movement that is (or
justifiably, is not) religiously based: 30%
Reading List:
- Peter Berger, The
Sacred Canopy
- William D. Miller, A
Harsh and Dreadful Love
- Dorothy Day, The Long
Loneliness
- Eric Lincoln & Lawrence
Mamiya, The Black Church in the African American Experience
- Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Strength to Love
- Mary S. Robbins, Against
the Vietnam War: Writings by Activist
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