Module Identifier | AS30120 | |||||||||||
Module Title | AMERICA IN THE SIXTIES | |||||||||||
Academic Year | 2003/2004 | |||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Dr Helena Grice | |||||||||||
Semester | Semester 1 | |||||||||||
Other staff | Mrs Carol M Marshall | |||||||||||
Pre-Requisite | AS10120 , AS10220 | |||||||||||
Co-Requisite | AS30020 , AS30220 | |||||||||||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | 20 Hours 10 x 2 hr | ||||||||||
Assessment |
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- Articulate an informed understanding of the key events of this period and their influence on the contemporary USA
- Write about the period and culture in a well-structured and well-argued way
- Illustrate their knowledge and views using a variety of examples from the range of disciplines covered during the course
- Demonstrate assured skill in critical analysis
- Demonstrate developing skills in oral presentation
1. Introduction and Overview
2. The ?New Frontier?
3. Lyndon Johnson?s ?Great Society?
4. The New Left and Student Protest
5. From ?Brown vs. Board of Education? to Selma: The Civil Rights Movement
6. From Civil Rights
7. Origins of Modern Feminism
8. The Counterculture I
9. The Counterculture II
10. The Anti-War Movement, Crises in the Left, and the Conservative Backlash
Required Reading
James Baldwin, Blues for Mister Charlie
Alexander Bloom and Wini Breines, eds., Takin? It to the Streets: A Sixties Reader
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo?s Nest
David Steigerwald, The Sixties and the End of Modern America
Required Viewing
Easy Rider (Dir. Denis Hopper, 1969)
This module is at CQFW Level 6