Activism / Non-Profit

Catalog description

The course (1) examines the internal structures underlying organizational behavior and action, such as hierarchy, authority, power, gender and sexuality, leadership, communications and control; (2) then proceeds to analyze how non-profit and for profit organizations shape social, political and cultural activism; (3) and finally concludes with a case study critically examining organizational and institutional responses to the HIV epidemic from its disastrous first days to the present.