ABOVE CLASS OPEN TO UNDERGRADUATES AND
EDUCATION MA’S ONLY
ABOVE CLASS MEETS WITH AAAD-A 405
Need study skills help?  Then contact the Student Academic Center
(855-7313) for on-line authorization for EDUC-X101 (Learning
Strategies for History, two additional credits) that will be offered
2:30 MW or 4:00 MW.

An intensive examination of the decade that tore apart post-World
War II American society.  The course begins with the confident
liberalism that believed the nation could “pay any price” and “bear
any burden” in order to stop communism abroad and to promote reform
at home.  We then focus on the challenges that destroyed this
liberal agenda: civil rights and black power, the New Left, the
counter culture, second-wave feminism, the sexual revolution, the
Vietnam War, de-industrialization, and the globalization of the
economy.  The course finishes with the examination of the more
conservative order that emerged in the early 1970s to deal with the
conflicting realities of limited national power and wealth, on the
one hand, and rising demands for rights and opportunity, on the
other.

In exploring this tumultuous period of American history, the course
emphasizes students’ development of critical analytical skills
through closely examining different kinds of historical evidence and
the expression of ideas through writing papers and exams.
Assignments, which average 65 pages a week, include a variety of on-
line primary sources, a textbook (Maurice Isserman and Michael
Kazin, "America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s"), television
shows, and two films ("Dr. Strangelove" and "The Graduate").   Each
student will write several brief papers (1 to 3 pages), two in-class
tests, and a final exam.  The grading formula is: all the short
papers, 25%; first in-class test, 20%; second in-class test, 25%;
and final exam, 30%.

There are no prerequisites for this course, which is open to
undergraduates from freshmen to seniors.