FF:AJ27052 U.S. History: The 1960s - Course Information
AJ27052 A Decade in U.S. History: The 1960s
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2004
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Tomáš Pospíšil, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Michaela Hrazdílková - Timetable
- Tue 15:00–16:35 32
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- This cultural studies course focuses on the variety of developments (cultural, political, intel-lectual) of one of the most turbulent decades in U.S. history: the 1960s. Together we will trace the origin of discontent with American middle-class values on the part of the baby-boom generation, we will concentrate on the rise and highlights of the civil-rights movement in the American South and we will examine the importance of the Vietnam war (and particularly the resistance to it) for the mood of the decade. We will look at the intellectual debates of the day and attempt to locate them in a broader historical context; naturally, a discussion of the decade would be incomplete without an attempt at a somewhat more detached assessment of the era's legacy.
- Syllabus
- This cultural studies course focuses on the variety of developments (cultural, political, intel-lectual) of one of the most turbulent decades in U.S. history: the 1960s. Together we will trace the origin of discontent with American middle-class values on the part of the baby-boom generation, we will concentrate on the rise and highlights of the civil-rights movement in the American South and we will examine the importance of the Vietnam war (and particularly the resistance to it) for the mood of the decade. We will look at the intellectual debates of the day and attempt to locate them in a broader historical context; naturally, a discussion of the decade would be incomplete without an attempt at a somewhat more detached assessment of the era's legacy.
- Assessment methods (in Czech)
- Assessment: an essay, a presentation and active participation. Hodnocení: esej, prezentace a aktivní účast.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Teacher's information
- http://www.phil.muni.cz/elf/course/category.php?id=3
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2004, recent)
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