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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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‘Occupy Wall Street’ Participation To Earn Class Credit At Columbia U.

Announcement Comes As Dozens Are Arrested On New Year's Eve


January 1, 2012 7:00 PM

newyork.cbslocal.com

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP)Columbia University will offer a new course for upperclassmen and grad students next semester. An Occupy Wall Street class will send students into the field and will be taught by Dr. Hannah Appel, a veteran of the Occupy movement.

The course begins next semester and will be divided between class work at Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus and fieldwork that will require students to become involved with the Occupy movement outside of the classroom.

The course will be called “Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, Social Movement” it will be run by the anthropology department.

Appel is a staunch defender of the Occupy movement, in her blog she said that, ““it is important to push back against the rhetoric of ‘disorganization’ or ‘a movement without a message’ coming from left, right and center.”

Appel told the New York Post that while her inv
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