Module Identifier | AS20020 | |||||||||||
Module Title | THE USA SINCE 1945: COLD WAR TO CIVIL RIGHTS | |||||||||||
Academic Year | 2007/2008 | |||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Dr Martin Padget | |||||||||||
Semester | Semester 1 | |||||||||||
Other staff | Dr Helena Grice, Mr Michael J Smith, Professor Timothy S Woods | |||||||||||
Pre-Requisite | EN11120 , EN11020 | |||||||||||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | Two hour weekly seminar | ||||||||||
Assessment |
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1. Introduction
Module introduction and overview of assessment
2. McCarthyism
Required Viewing: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Dir. Don Siegel, 1955)
3. Cold War
Required viewing: Dr Strangelove (Dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
4. Countercultures I
Required Reading: Ann Charters, ed, The Penguin Book of the Beats (selections)
5. Countercultures II
Required Reading/Viewing: Ken Kesey, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1970); One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Dir. Milos Forman, 1975)
6. Youth Cultures
Required Reading/Viewing: Rebel Without a Cause (Dir. Nicholas Ray, 1955); J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye (1958)
7. Suburbanisation
Required Reading/Viewing: John Cheever, from The Stories of John Cheever (1990) (i.e. `The Swimmer', `The Wrysons', `The Housebreaker of Shady Hill'); The Swimmer (Dir. Frank Perry, 1968)
8. Women in Post-War Society
Required Reading: Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963)
9. The Civil Rights Movement I: From Brown to Selma
Required Reading: Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968)
10. The Civil Rights Movement II: From Civil Rights to Black Power
Required Reading: Alice Walker, Meridian (1976)
Problem solving | This will be developed during the course of the seminars and in the assessment tasks | ||
Research skills | This will be developed during the course of the seminars and in the assessment tasks | ||
Communication | Students' writing in an academic context will be developed and assessed in the coursework. Oral skills will be developed in individual and group work in seminars, but not assessed | ||
Improving own Learning and Performance | This will be developed during the course of the seminars and in the assessment tasks | ||
Team work | This is built into the pedagogy of the module - all students will work in pairs and/or groups to comment on theories in relation to texts | ||
Information Technology | Students will be expected to present their work in word processed form (and will edit PC generated text); they will also be required to make use of computerized library resources | ||
Application of Number | n/a | ||
Personal Development and Career planning | This will be addressed in the module¿s emphasis on independent and group work, and its attempt to develop professional presentational skills. | ||
Subject Specific Skills | Working with a multi- and interdisciplinary focus will be developed in seminars and in the assessed work |
This module is at CQFW Level 5