Un-“Happy Days”: Fear in 1950

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This course is designed for undergraduates and serves to introduce students to the study of mass media as well as a crucial decade in American history. It also explores the use and misuse of history, calling into question the tendency to serve up history in ten year units (i.e. the opening lecture is “The Fifties: 1935-1992”). Students are required to do a significant amount of reading (two books and a handful of reviews) and writing (five short reaction papers and a longer analytical paper). Course Attributes: Humanities Elective College of Arts & Sciences History