[PEN-L:3862] The Vietnam War Era and the Sixties

[Steve Cullenberg <stephen.cullenberg@xxxxxxx>]

I am currently involved in planning an undergraduate "cluster course" for
next year with two collegues, one in English/Film Studies and the other a
historian.  We are developing a year-long course which will be
interdisciplinary and have about 150 students in it (large lectures with TA
sections).  The class will be mostly sophomores out of a student body that
is 43% Asian (a large percentage of whom are Vietnamese), 22% Latino, 30%
Caucasian, 5% African American.  The topic for our course is "The Vietnam
War Era and the Sixties".  Our plan is to integrate history, film,
literature, politics, music and political economy that focuses on the
transformations in the sixties in the US and abroad as well.  We will
certainly begin in the fifties and probably end up around Watergate.

Our provisional plan is cover a number of different topic areas.  We are
still discussing best how to integrate them.  The topics are as follows:
(1) the rise of the welfare state and golden age capitalism, (2)  poverty
and the Great Society programs, (2) race and civil rights, (3) the women's
movement and gender inequality, (4) liberation struggles against
colonialism and imperialism, especially Vietnam, (5) the student movement.

This is a new course for me to teach and I would very much appreciate
any related course syllabae, and especially any references to appropriate
readings related to the "political economy" or other aspects of the above
topics.  Suggestions for other topics would be appreciated as well.

Thanks in advance for help with references.

Steve C.

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