Description
This course will examine the Civil Rights Movement in America. The movement changed those who participated in it, made America a more democratic society, gave rise to a host of other movements that transformed the face of American culture, and influenced a new generation of American leadership. As a critical examination, the period from 1955-1965 receives special attention, but the roots of the freedom struggle in an earlier era and the effect of the movement on recent American history also warrants investigation. This course will use primary source documents, film, interpretive literature, and music in order to fully study the most powerful mass protest movement in modem U.S. history. The course will be presented in a seminar style.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Students will demonstrate understanding of United States’ society and/or history, including the diversity of individuals and communities that make up the nation
- Students will understand the role of individual participation in US communities and government
- Students will apply historical and contemporary evidence to draw, support, or verify conclusions
- Students will describe the historical and contemporary societal factors that shape the development of individual and group identity involving race, class, and gender
- Students will analyze the role that complex networks of social structures and systems play in the creation and perpetuation of the dynamics of power, privilege, oppression, and opportunity
- Students will apply the principles of rights, access, equity, and autonomous participation to past, current, or future social justice action
Semester
Special Rotation