HIST 5220 - 1960s in U.S.: Decade of Controversy

Allows students to go beyond the popular stereotypes of the 1960s to understand the decade as a period of social, cultural and political confrontation that laid the groundwork for life in the present-day United States. Primary focus on social protest movements of the era; the Civil Rights movement, the student movement, the antiwar movement, the counterculture, and the women’s movement.

Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:

Students will be critical readers of primary and secondary sources.
Students will have effective oral presentation skills.
Students will master the formal styles of writing and argumentation that historians use in their work.
Students will understand the roles of race, class, gender, and ethnicty in the history of the 1960s.
Students will use and properly cite primary and secondary sources in their written work.