Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2006-2007
MLSC 602 - AGAINST THE GRAIN
Long Title: AGAINST THE GRAIN: DISSENTERS IN AMERICAN SOCIETY
Department: School of Continuing Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Major(s):
Liberal Studies
Description: This course will offer a biographical focus on ten Americans who challenged the orthodoxies of their time and place. Where these radical dissenters visionaries or cranks? What led them to challenge the conventional wisdom of their day? Which of their ideas came to fruition, and which ones were rejected? By examining unpopular ideas and the man and women who propounded them, prehaps we can understand the dynamics of social change.