America in Sixties: Politics, Society, and Culture, 1954 to 1974

6 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)

Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: course 60A. Limited to first-year freshmen. Interdisciplinary exploration of U.S. society from Brown versus Board of Education (1954) to resignation of Nixon. Topics include civil rights, Great Society, anti-Vietnam war movement, political and artistic countercultures, and changes in technology, law, and media. P/NP or letter grading.