HISTORY 5302
   Fall 2009  
                             Wed. 7-9:45                             

Professor Rodnitzky     343 UH
Office Hours: 5:30-6:30 Wed , 11-12 TuTh
E-mail jerry.rodnitzky@uta.edu
Phone: (817) 272-2850  

                    COLLOQUIUM ON TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICA  

TOPIC:  1960S ACTIVISM

COURSE DESCRIPTION  

 The course centers on 1960s activism in America .  It focuses on social, political, and countercultural aspects of movements such as women’s liberation, civil rights, ecology and student activism. Course work consists of directed reading, written comments on the reading and class discussion. The course is self-consciously interdisciplinary and geared to liberal arts and humanities students interested in taking a critical look at Sixties activism and able to present their views on the readings in written commentaries which will be the subject of in-class discussions. Indeed this process defines a “colloquium.”  

REQUIRED READINGS :  

1.Eldrige Cleaver, SOUL ON ICE

2.Collier and Horowitz, DESTRUCTIVE GENERATION: SECOND THOUGHTS ON THE 60s

3. Alexander Bloom, LONGTIME GONE:  SIXTIES AMERICA , THEN AND NOW

4. Dominick Cavallo, A FICTION OF THE PAST:  THE SIXTIES IN OUR TIME

5. Gloria Steinem, OUTRAGEOUS ACTS AND EVERDAY REBELLIONS

One week in advance I will announce the specific readings we will focus on the following week. Each class will consist of comment on and discussion of specific, required readings. Each class member will please make Xerox copies of their written commentary on the specific reading for that day for distribution to all other course members. Commentaries must be typed, single spaced on one 8x11 sheet of paper.  

At Semester’s end there will be a final bibliographic type exam, covering the readings and class sessions only.  

Final Exam--  Wednesday of Final Exam week 8-10:30 p.m.