Activism and the College Experience: From Anti-Fascism to #MeToo

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What does it mean to be a politically committed individual in the 21st century? What did it mean to be politically committed for CCNY students in the 1930s? Did you know that 60 City College students volunteered to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)? This course will examine political activism on the CCNY campus in the context of the global conflict between totalitarianism and democracy in the 1930s. Students will read and write about the fight against fascism both in Europe and in the US. We will connect past and present by drawing comparisons between the political activism of the 1930s and such current movements as #occupywallstreet, #blacklivesmatter, and #metoo. ?