PO 362 - Popular Participation in Latin America

Min Units: 3
Max Units: 3
This course focuses upon the efforts of peasants, urban workers, neighborhoods, church groups, and students to organize and mobilize in politically efficacious ways. The themes of social class, gender, ethnicity, and the informal sector are interwoven in an analysis of the successes and failures of these attempts at popular participation in the political process. (U/G) Occasionally
Prerequisite(s): PO 101, PO 151, or permission of the instructor