Schedule and Assignments:  Social Movements Spring 2006  
Links:   Course Syllabus  - Class Notes -  WEBCT   -  Instructor's email:  goertzel@camden.rutgers.edu
Note:  There is a Discussion List available on our WEBCT home page.  This can be used for asking questions about the weekly quizzes or for other topics.
January 17 - Signing up for WEBCT and other departmental systems.  Discussion of Weekly Quizzes.   Overview of the "Editor's Introduction" to the Goodwin and Jasper reader, pp. 3 to 9.   Video from "Campus Culture Wars" 
January 19 -  Discussion of the Introduction to Part II or the reader, pp. 11-14.  Further viewing and discussion of  "Campus Culture Wars".  Interpretation of the events in Campus Culture Wars in terms of the theories from the book.
First Quiz (revised version) will open by 5 p.m. on Friday, January 20  and close 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan 27. The first quiz will cover pages pages 1 to 14 in Goodwin and Jasper, which will be distributed in class, and material on the political correctness videos viewed on January 17 and January 19.
January 24 -  Generational Change and Social Movements.  Reading "September 11, 2001:  A Turning Point for America's Future?"   A Powerpoint version of this paper that will be presented in class is available here. 
January 26 -   Terrorist Movements.  Reading:  "Terrorist Beliefs and Terrorist Lives" 
Second Weekly Quiz will be open by 5 p.m. on January 25 and close before class on January 31  It will include "September 11, 2001:  A Turning Point for America's Future?" and "Terrorist Beliefs and Terrorist Lives"  and topics covered in class..   
January 31 -    Latin American Social Movements.  Required reading (with the same title) is posted in WEBCT. 
February 2 -   More on Latin American Social Movements.
Quiz Three on Latin American Social Movements opened January 29 and will close on Monday, February 6.  It covers Latin American Social Movements, including the reading posted in WEBCT and materials to be presented in class and in a powerpoint that will be posted in WEBCT.
 February 7 -   Civil Rights Movement (part 2 in The Social Movements Reader).
February 9 -  Visit by members of the Muslim student group at Rutgers Camden.
Quiz Four covering Part 2 in The Social Movements Reader opened January 29 and will close on Monday, February 13.  This material will be available in WEBCT for anyone who still has not obtained a book.
February 14 - Feminist and Gay Rights Movements.  Video from "Campus Culture Wars" 
Quiz Five is open and will close on Monday, February 20.  It covers "The Iranian Revolution" and "The Roots of Muslim Rage" plus one question on feminist authors.
February 16 - Origins of The Iranian Revolution (Part 2 in The Social Movements Reader)  and the radical Islamist movements, reading "The Roots of Muslim Rage" by Bernard Lewis, in WEBCT.
Quiz Six will open February 21 and close on February 27.  It will cover the readings for February 21 and 23.
February 21 - Who Joins Movements?   Reading Assignment: Introduction to Part 3 of The Social Movements Reader, pages 51-54,  What Terrorists Want, and James Aho, "Christian Patriotism",  chapter 9 in The Social Movements Reader.
February 23 - Changes in Values. Reading:  Ronald Inglehart, "Changing Values in Post-Industrial Societies" (in The Social Movements Reader") plus excerpts from Francis Fukuyama, "After Neoconservatism"
February 28 - Review for Midterm  -  Sample Questions
March 2 - Midterm Examination. 
Quiz Seven covering Part IV in the reader will be open until March 8.
March 7 -  Part IV:  Who Remains in Movements, and Who Drops Out?   Reading:  Part IV of The Social Movements Reader.  Discussion of Extra Credit Projects. 
March 9 -  Recruitment to Islamist Movements.  Reading: "Suicide Terrorism as a Youth Movement" by Ted Goertzel (in WEBCT) and "Selections from "The Clash of Civilizations" by Samuel Huntington, in WEBCT (this reading was added too late for Quiz Eight and will be covered in Quiz Nine). 
Quiz Eight covering "Suicide Terrorism as a Youth Movement" and Part V in the reader will be open until March 24
March 21 -  Part V:  What Do Movement Participants Think and Feel?  World Views of Pro and Anti-Abortion Activists.  Beginning of Four Days in September  
March 23 -  Latin American Guerilla Movements.  More of Four Days in September.
March 28 -  Part VI:  How Are Movements Organized?  Read all the chapters in this section.
Quiz Nine covering Part VI in the Reader and Four Days in September will open on March 24 and close March 31.
March 30 -  International Social Movements - Amnesty International as a case example.
April 4 -  Part VII:  What Do Movements Do?   Strategy and Tactics:  Historical Movements
Quiz Ten covering Part VII in the Reader will open by April 1 and close April 7.  It will also include some library research questions to be answered by searching some library resources.
April 6 -  Strategy and Tactics:  Contemporary Debates.   Reading:  William Domhoff:  "A Fresh Start for the Left" and "Social Movements and Strategic Nonviolence"
      Friday April 7 - Extra Credit Proposals Due. 
April 11 -  The Media and Social Movements.  Reading:  "The Media's Role in Terrorism" by Brigitte Nacos (in WEBCT) and the articles in Part VIII of the reader
Quiz Eleven will be open until April 14.  It covers the Domhoff essays (see April 6) and Part VIII of the reader.
April 13 -  Cultural and Generational  Conflict in Europe Today.  Readings:  "We Will Not be Thrown Away"  by Angela Chrisafis and "The Dutch Model" by Jane Kramer (in WEBCT).  "Globalizing Good Government" 
      Friday April 14 - Extra Credit Library Assignments Due
Quiz Twelve will open April 14 and close April 24.  It covers the readings for April  13 and 18 and "The Media's Role in Terrorism" by Brigitte Nacos.
April 18 -    Video:  excerpts from The Laramie Project.   Assigned Reading:  "What's So Bad About Hate?"
       Tuesday April 18 - Extra Credit Powerpoints or Word Files Due in WEBCT 
April 20 -  Extra Credit Presentations.  (see notes for information) 
April 25 -  The Impact of Social Movements.  Reading:  Barbra Epstein, "The Decline of the Women's Movement," and William Gamson, "Defining Movement `Success'" (chapters 29 and 31 in the reader) - Review for Final.  This will be our last regular class meeting.
Wednesday, April 26, 12 noon.  Special poster session class.  Be sure to sign in with Dr. Goertzel for attendance extra credit.  Extra credit posters will be presented.
Special Review Quiz for the Final.  Must be taken on April 27, 28 or 29 (in lieu of a regular class on April 27).  The answers to the quiz will be released on April 30.  This quiz counts toward the grade and must be taken by April 29..
April 27 -  No class meeting.  The special review quiz for the final will be available (see box above).
   May 4, 8 to 10 a.m.  -  Office Hours:  all last minute problems should be resolved at this time.
   April 27 to May 5 -  Discussion List Open:  This is the place to ask questions and to read the answers to other students' questions.  As an incentive to check the list, a daily "hint" will be posted to help with the final exam.   
May 5 -   2 to 5  Final Exam