This is a distance learning course. You will be responsible for listening to Professor Ambrose’s lectures handed out on DVD and for attending Professor Bischof’s scheduled evening sessions without fail. Readings will have to be done by the dates indicated on the syllabus so you will be prepared for discussing them in class.
]]>Transnational Perspectives This course will look at the turmoil of the 1960s as a crisis decade culminating in the “year of shocks” 1968 from a comparative international perspective. It will cover some of the major movements in the United States (youth cultures, civil rights, Vietnam War and anti-war) but also look at their significance in the world at large. The “protest culture” of the 1960s and the eruption of violent protests will be studied in their global context, how they radicalized and fed on each other. The significance of the 1960s in the trajectory of the post-World War II world will also be assessed by looking at text books.]]>