HST 444 The United States in the 1960’s

3 Credit(s) DPDS

This course will explore the politics and culture of the 1960’s, focusing on United states social movements as part of a global revolution. Topics include Cold War culture, the Civil Rights Movement, Women’s Equality, the American Indian Movement, Chicano Power, Black Nationalism, Radical Feminism, Gay Liberation, the Vietnam War, the counterculture, the Watergate Scandal, and the rise of conservative politics. The social movements addressed in the course centers diversity, power dynamics, and social justice issues and perspectives that affect marginalized and under-served individuals, groups, and communities within American society during the 1960’s. Students will be encouraged to identify how this historical context informs contemporary social structures, communities, and power dynamics. The course fulfills the DPDS requirement. Three lecture hours.