HST 328 - The Global Sixties

Min Units: 3
Max Units: 3
Any class on the 1960s should not begin with a rigid course description, but alas. This course will focus on the “Long Sixties” - a period of social, cultural, and political upheaval. During this decade, youth and radicals around the world challenged post-war authority and attempted to give birth to new societies that reflected a more egalitarian ethos. Throughout the semester we will adopt a global approach and study how radicals and revolutionaries made connections across national borders and conceived of themselves within a larger revolutionary framework. In so doing we will ask questions about race, gender, class, sexuality, colonialism and post-colonialism, violence, pacifism, youth, authority, culture, and myriad other topics. This course will utilize literature, memoirs, historical studies, films, and primary sources to address these topics. (U/G) Occasionally