Featured Course
AMST 350
Few decades in recent American history have generated more controversy than the 1960s. An era once memorably described by the expression that "if you can remember the sixties you weren’t really there," this was an age of remarkable political and social change and upheaval. Characterized by, among other things, the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban missile crisis; the Vietnam War; the civil rights movement; the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert Kennedy; President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” the counter culture and Woodstock; as well as the first man on the moon; to say nothing of challenges to the status quo in the areas of race and gender, this was a decade that changed America. Beginning with a brief look at the allegedly conformist fifties and ending in the 1970s with Watergate and the resignation of President Richard Nixon, this course will examine the political, cultural and social aspects of that turbulent decade the 1960s
M T W TH 1:00 PM - 4:10 PM Duncan Campbell
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