AM 360C: American Cultural Periods: The 1960s
Gregory M. Pfitzer, TLC 330, x5026
An interdisciplinary analysis of the decade of the 1960s in America. Using a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, including fiction, film, music, biography, autobiography, poetry, sociology, drama, and social criticism, the course explores the distinctive culture of this decade. It focuses on the ways different groups of Americans experienced the period, studying conformity and consumerism, the beatniks, rock and roll, and the silent generation, as well as the roots of the protest movements and the counterculture of the 1960s.