2021-2022 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
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HUM 209 The American Civil Rights Movement (5 credits)



Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Course Description
This course offers students a broad multicultural understanding of the American Civil Rights Movement through the Humanities: art, film, photography, oral histories, literature, theater, and music of the reform era. The course highlights the experiences and impact of local activists and organizations through the arts, presenting the movement from a “ground-up” perspective rather than a “top-down” to enhance students’ civic and multicultural literacy.

Student Outcomes
1. Identify a range of American Civil Rights Movement activists, including individuals as well as organizations.
2. Explain local citizens’ (women, workers, preachers, teachers, students) direct action strategies in protesting legal, social, and civic injustices.
3. Interpret the impact of local activists, specifically students and community organizations, on their respective communities, including those in the Northwest.
4. Analyze primary documents of the American Civil Rights Movement.
5. Evaluate the social, economic, and political contexts of the course content.
6. Develop and demonstrate the ability to trace the nature of the oppression being protested and discuss the various tools of resistance.
7. Examine major civil rights milestones, national figures, and events in direct relation to preceding protest from a variety of concurrent movements.
8. Compare and contrast the traditional top-down approach, which focuses on legislation and national figures, to the American Civil Rights Movement’s ground-up approach, which focuses on local people’s activism and organization.



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