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Apr 19, 2024
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Goucher College 2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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PCE 148 - Nonviolence, Mapping, and (r)Evolution (4 Cr.)
This class will examine the nature and uses of nonviolence, linking historical case
studies with emerging developments and dilemmas. Although many associate
nonviolence with its most famous proponents or well-known movements (Gandhi, King,
the civil rights movement in the U.S. south), nonviolence is actually still evolving. This
course asks: What is nonviolence, what is it useful for, and what are its new
vocabularies? More and more, groups are expanding the practice of nonviolence from
things like “protest” and “direct action,” to “document,” “research,” “collaborate,” and
other ways of seeing systems and intervening in life-giving ways.
We will explore how nonviolence is not “either” a tactic “or” a theory, but something
more holistic and challenging. We will use the base DNA of Gandhian nonviolence— to
collect the facts —- using mapping techniques to research, document, and re-present
situations. We will engage in experiential exercises, using the class, campus, and
community as a micro-scale version of the same dynamics, forces, and choices that
nonviolence asks us to observe and decide on in the world. Fall and spring semester. Hopper.
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