Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
Lecture
Online
Seminar
Module Offerings
6130HIST-JAN-MTP
Aims
1. Introduce students to the social activism and change of the 1960s, specifically that which occurred in the U.S.
2. To inspire students to think critically about the intersections of social change, racial backgrounds, gender, and sexuality in the 1960s.
3. To encourage students to challenge established narratives of social movements by engaging with individual perspectives and accounts.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Interpret nuances within social movements, particularly with reference to those of the long 1960s.
2.
Analyse events from these different movements with attention to activists’ agency, through research of primary sources.
3.
Describe the specifics of particular movements while understanding how they relate with one another.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Students and the Civil Rights Movement: Forming Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Week 3: Black Power
Week 4: Vietnam I: Rise of anti-war protest, impact on the civil rights movement
Week 5: Vietnam II: Democratic National Convention (1968), Kent State, Jackson State, Scranton Commission
Week 6: Counterculture: Underground newspapers, drug experimentation, free love, Weather Underground
Week 7: Women’s Liberation I: Foundations, National Organization for Women (NOW)
Week 8: Women’s Liberation II: Probing liberal/radical divide, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Week 9: Red Power: Occupation of Alcatraz, occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs building in Washington, D.C., and the takeover of Wounded Knee
Week 10: Gay Rights: Stonewall Riots, the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights
Week 11: Legacy of the 1960s
Additional Information:The portfolio will include analysis of primary source materials.