HIST 3635: The 1960s in America

Course Description

This course aims to interweave the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the student movements, the women's movement, and other developments of the period to place them in an historical context of a complicated era of change. The course compels students to critically evaluate social movements, political developments, cultural trends, and foreign policies by close examination of primary documents as well as critical evaluations of the various ways that scholars have interpreted the period. (AY).