HSTY 380 - The Sixties in America

Institution:

Case Western Reserve University

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Description:

This course examines social, cultural, and political changes in the United States during the 1960s. We begin by examining the economic prosperity and "fragile" political consensus of the post-WWII period, as well as the undercurrent of poverty, dissent, and Cold War fears. We then cover the civil rights movement, student activism, the women's movement, the growth of Liberal America and the welfare state, the Vietnam War, the counterculture and conservative youth movements, the growth of a national consumer-driven, mass-mediated market, and the music, art, and pop culture--as well as their growing reliance on technological intervention--during this period of creative efflorescence. We will do this through reading books, but also through "reading" contemporary evidence of life in America, including listening to music, viewing films, analyzing pictures and artifacts.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.case.edu

Phone Number:

(216) 368-2000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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