1970s America ((4 Credits))

Catalog description

This course explores American history and culture during the critical decade of the 1970s. The student will read and view a variety of works (textual and cinematic) through which they will learn about important economic, political, social, and cultural events, individuals, debates, and developments in the 1970s. Themes discussed throughout the course may include but are not limited to: the fate of liberalism in post-1960s America, the rise of ethnic identity and its impact on the rights revolution, gender and the politics of sexuality, religion and the rise of the South, Nixon and Watergate, Carter and political malaise, urban decay, environmentalism, and encounters with terrorism.