民主与社会运动本科证书

政治科学中的民主与社会运动（DSM）证书计划向学生介绍有关社会运动与发起和巩固民主的过程之间复杂的相互作用的最新研究和实践。历史上有争议的政治活动虽然促进了民主化，但也导致了镇压，族裔冲突和实质性侵犯人权行为。DSM证书计划旨在吸引那些希望将研究重点放在全球民主化过程的最新状态的人，包括探索社会运动可以促进甚至威胁那些民主化过程的方式。该课程的学生将探索全球化如何同时分裂和团结全球，增加财富和使人民贫穷，巩固人权制度并超越人权制度，并引发关于我们道德承诺的界限以及社区争取民主与正义的手段的问题。
The Democracy and Social Movements (DSM) certificate program in political science introduces students to current research and practice concerning the complex interplay between social movements and the processes for initiating and consolidating democracies. While contentious political activities have historically contributed to democratization, they have also led to repression, ethnic conflict and substantive human rights violations. The DSM certificate program is designed to appeal to persons who want to focus their studies on the recent state of democratization processes around the world, including explorations of the ways in which social movements can catalyze or even threaten those democratization processes. Students in the program will explore how globalization is simultaneously fragmenting and uniting the globe, enhancing wealth and impoverishing people, consolidating human rights regimes and transgressing them and provoking questions about the boundaries of our ethical commitments and the means whereby communities strive for democracy and justice.