 | The Protests of the 50s, 60s, and 70s Wednesdays 3:00-5:50 315C Wells Hall PROFESSOR: Mark Kornbluh |
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Syllabus, Spring Semester 2003 Wednesdays 3:00-5:50 315C Wells Hall Mark Kornbluh This seminar will explore the mass protests of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, focusing on the Civil Rights Movement, the Student Movement, Anti-War Movement, and the Women’s Movement. The is a readings, viewing, discussion, and research seminar. ----------------------------------------------------------------- REQUIRED BOOKS: Terry Anderson,
The Movement and the Sixties. ----------------------------------------------------------------- COURSE SCHEDULE: January 8:
Introduction: The Protests of the 50s, 60s, and 70s January 15:
Civil Rights I PROJECT PROPOSALS DUE: January 22 January 29: Black
Power FEBRUARY 5:
Introduction to Radicalism collection at Special Collections at the MSU
Library February 12:
The Birth of the New Left and SDS February 19:
The Free Speech Movement February 26:
The Vietnam War March 5: No Class: Spring Break March 12:
The Anti-War Movement DETAILED PAPER OUTLINE DUE March 12 MARCH 19:
The Counter-Culture MARCH 26: The Women’s Movement I READ: The
World Split Open April 2:
Beyond the Sixties: Race Class, and Gender in Contemporary APRIL 9: NO CLASS: WORK ON PROJECT APRIL 16: Project Report APRIL 23: Project Reports RESEARCH PAPER DUE APRIL 30, 3:00 P.M.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS: This class is a reading, viewing, discussion and research seminar. Both attendance and participation at seminar meetings are essential, as is participation on HST480, the electronic discussion list for this course. Discussions will center around the weekly readings and videos. In preparation for these discussions, everyone will be asked to post a short piece to the discussion list. These will vary in shape, but will usually involve identifying important questions in the readings. Commutatively, participation in class and on the discussion list will count for 40% of the course grade The major written requirement for this class is an independent research project which will count for 60% of the course grade. Project proposals are due on January 22. Proposals must be approved and may hve to be modified to ensure that each student is undertaking a distinct project that can be completed within one semester. A bibliographic report following a proscribed form is due on February 12 and a detailed paper outline is due on March 12. Each student will present their project orally to the seminar during the final two weeks of the semester. As these assignments are scheduled well in advance, they are required to be in on time. HST480 DISCUSSION LIST: This course has an electronic discussion list to facilitate further discussion of the course readings and videos. All members of the class are expected to participate in this electronic discussion list. On some weeks, the list will be used for weekly assignments, on others to extend our discussions beyond the classroom. The list is unmoderated so that messages submitted by class participants are immediately distributed to other class members. This discussion list is linked to a website to facilitate retrieval of messages http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst480). The HST480 logs which are stored on this site will allow class participants to look back over past conversations on the discussion list and comment upon them. The Website includes a variety of additional information relevant to HST480 course materials including the course syllabus, and primary documents. To subscribe to HST480, send an e-mail message to listserv@h-net.msu.edu with no subject and only this text: sub HST480 firstname lastname Your request should look something like this: sub HST480 John Smith You will receive a confirmation that your request has been received. To unsubscribe, send this message to LISTSERV@h-net.msu.edu unsub HST480 If you have any questions or experience any difficulties in attempting to subscribe or unsubscribe, please send a message to me at Mark@mail.matrix.msu.edu GRADING AND PAPER COMMENTS: In the body of your papers, a check mark indicates a good point. Several marks are sometimes used for emphasis as are the comments, "good, excellent, or yes." Critical comments on your papers are both substantive and stylistic. Besides factual comments, substantive comments are used to indicate where you fail to fully explain a point, give evidence to support your case, or link your ideas together. Consistency is important and internal contradictions in your papers are noted. I also indicate where your writing and choice of words fail to get your ideas across, as well as places where they are awkward. Spelling, grammatical, and tense errors as well as contractions are unacceptable in graduate papers. Critical Abbreviations include: AWK - Awkward phrasing or construction. CW or WC - Choice of word is poor.WW - Wrong word. Word does not say what you mean. Transition - Missing a transition. SP - Spelling error. GR - Grammatical error. Contraction - Contraction is used. Run On - Run on sentence. Tense - Wrong tense. Pronoun - Pronoun is unclear or wrong. ¶ - New paragraph. ??? - Point is not clear. Meaning - What you are trying to say is not clear. Writing - Your writing obscures your ideas. | |