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The Sixties: Culture and Counter-Culture - MHPG919
This unit offers a cultural history of the "long 1960s" in the western world, primarily the United States, incorporating a study of momentous social, political and cultural changes: the Cold War, The Vietnam War, student movements, civil rights and black power movements, the rise of the New Right, and the emergence of feminism and women's liberation. In particular, the unit will examine how forces of conservatism and radicalism responded to change in the 1960s, and how these changes were reflected through culture and the emerging counter-culture. The historiography of the "long 1960s" will be a thread running throughout the unit, mostly in terms of how historians have dealt with the changes, challenges, promises and failures of the 1960s, and how much the 1960s constitutes a "contested terrain" in recent historiography and cultural memory.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| When Offered: | TBD - To be determined |
| Staff Contact(s): | Modern History staff |
| Prerequisites: |
(12cp in MHIS or AHST or POL units at 300 level) or (admission to MA in History or MA in Modern History or PGDipArts in Modern History or PGCertArts in Modern History) |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations Faculty of Arts |
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