{"id":391768,"date":"2019-01-06T03:35:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T02:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-rutgers-students-earn-credit-for-learning-resistance\/"},"modified":"2019-01-06T03:35:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T02:35:02","slug":"prison-planet-com-rutgers-students-earn-credit-for-learning-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-rutgers-students-earn-credit-for-learning-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Rutgers students earn credit for learning \u2018resistance\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=11702\"><strong>Campus Reform<\/strong><\/a><br \/>January 4, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Students at Rutgers University can earn academic credit in spring 2019 by learning social justice \u201cresistance strategies\u201d and grassroots organizing strategies. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPracticing Social Justice\u201d is a <a href=\"https:\/\/womens-studies.rutgers.edu\/academics\/undergraduate\/course-synopses\/224-academics\/undergraduate-program\/synopses\/social-justice-courses\/951-01-904-202-practicing-social-justice\">course<\/a> offered by the New Jersey school\u2019s Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Department and seeks to examine the history and \u201cnew strategies and new challenges\u201d of \u201csocial justice practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students enrolled will explore political action strategies such as \u201cgrassroots organizing,\u201d \u201cidentity-based organizing,\u201d social media tactics for \u201cpolitical change and narrative change,\u201d \u201cnonviolent confrontational organizing,\u201d and \u201cresistance strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The stated <a href=\"https:\/\/womens-studies.rutgers.edu\/images\/UnderGrad_CourseDescription\/Practicing_Social_Justice_2019_Course_Description_1f7a2.pdf\">purpose<\/a> of the three-credit course is, in part, to compel students to \u201cexplore the current debates about the strategies and contexts for social justice practice in response to a variety of current social justice problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Practicing Social Justice is a required course for those wishing to obtain a <a href=\"https:\/\/womens-studies.rutgers.edu\/academics\/undergraduate\/minors\/13-minor-in-social-justice\">minor in Social Justice<\/a> from Rutgers. \u00a0Other requirements include taking either a Social Justice or Women\u2019s and Gender Studies internship or seminar. Approved electives for the minor include courses such as \u00a0\u201cMarxist Literary Theory,\u201d \u201cWomen on the Fringe,\u201d \u201cCulture of US Imperialism,\u201d \u201cGendered Geographies,\u201d and \u201cProducing Identities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Campus Reform<\/em> reached out to the university for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.<\/p>\n<p>Rutgers made headlines in November after rescinding its punishment of James Livingston, a history professor who posted \u201cI now hate white people\u201d on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>The school had ruled that Livingston had violated its Discrimination and Harassment policy after the professor complained about kids he saw playing at a restaurant, calling them \u201clittle Caucasian assholes\u201d \u201cslid[ing] around the floor.\u201d Rutgers reasoned&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/rutgers-students-earn-credit-for-learning-resistance.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus ReformJanuary 4, 2019 Students at Rutgers University can earn academic credit in spring 2019 by learning social justice \u201cresistance strategies\u201d and grassroots organizing strategies. \u00a0 \u201cPracticing Social Justice\u201d is a course offered by the New Jersey school\u2019s Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Department and seeks to examine the history and \u201cnew strategies and new challenges\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}