Module Identifier | AS30120 | ||||||||||||||
Module Title | AMERICA IN THE SIXTIES | ||||||||||||||
Academic Year | 2005/2006 | ||||||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Dr Luke A Thurston | ||||||||||||||
Semester | Semester 1 | ||||||||||||||
Pre-Requisite | AS10120 , AS10220 | ||||||||||||||
Co-Requisite | AS30020 , AS30220 | ||||||||||||||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | 10 x 2 hr | |||||||||||||
Assessment |
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1. To build upon the knowledge gained by students in Part I by familiarising Single Honours American Studies students with crucial events and important changes in American society and culture during the 1960s.
2. To offer students an interdisciplinary approach to American Studies. The perspectives of history, literature and politics are brought to bear on a series of common topics in a way that enhances understanding of the subject-matter, as well as demonstrating the conceptual benefits (and problems) of interdisciplinary study.
3. To supplement the existing range of courses in American Studies and thereby enhance students' overall understanding of American culture.
1. Introduction and Overview
2. The 'New Frontier'
Readings: President Kennedy's Inaugural Address; Douglas T. Miller, On Our Own: Americans in the Sixties (Heath)
3. Lyndon Johnson's 'Great Society'
Readings: Douglas T. Miller, On Our Own: Americans in the Sixties (Heath); Johnson, 'Great Society' speech and other documents
4. The New Left and Student Protest
Readings: Douglas T. Miller, On Our Own: Americans in the Sixties (Heath); Bloom and Breines, Takin' It to the Streets, ch.2
5. From 'Brown vs. Board of Education' to Selma: The Civil Rights Movement
Readings: Douglas T. Miller, On Our Own: Americans in the Sixties (Heath); Bloom and Breines, Takin? It to the Streets, ch.1; Martin Luther King, 'retter from Birmingham Jail? (photocopy); John F. Kennedy, 'rivil Rights Address? (photocopy)
6. From Civil Rights to Black Power
Readings: Douglas T. Miller, On Our Own: Americans in the Sixties (Heath); James Baldwin, Blues for Mister Charlie
Bloom and Breines, Takin' It to the Streets, pp. 135-76
7. Origins of Modern Feminism
Readings: Douglas T. Miller, On Our Own: Americans in the Sixties (Heath); Bloom and Brienes, Takin' It to the Streets, ch.8
8. The Counterculture I
Readings: Ken Kesey, One Flew over the Cuckoo'r Nest; Bloom and Breines, Takin' It to the Streets, Ch. 5 (selections)
Album: Bob Dylan, Bringing it All Back Home
9. The Counterculture II
Reading: Bloom and Breines, Takin' It to the Streets, ch.9.
Viewing: Easy Rider (Dir. Denis Hopper, 1969)
10. The Anti-War Movement, Crises in the Left, and the Conservative Backlash
Reading: Bloom and Breines, Takin' It to the Streets, chs. 4, 6, 7 (selections)
This module is at CQFW Level 6