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There
are no formal prerequisites for the course but all students should
understand that this is an advanced course that presumes a survey
knowledge of the historical period covered. Culture, foreign
policy, politics and literature, race and gender relations, and
constitutional, business and economic issues are among the subjects
we will be concerned with. Also, sex.
There will be two 80-minute, in-class Midterm Examinations.
Midterm I will be on Thursday, March 2. Midterm II will be on
Thursday, April 13. The Midterms are required in the sense that
students who elect to pass up the Midterms, or fail to earn a
passing grade on at least one, may expect that they will lose all
benefits of doubt come the Final. Moreover, the Dean requires that
a student have demonstrated “passing work” before the Final in order
to qualify for an “I” grade should the student miss the Final for
ANY reason. NO EXCEPTIONS. Therefore, students who miss both
Midterms, or who do not earn at least a “C-“ on at least one, and
also miss the regularly scheduled Final Exam Tuesday, May 18,
8-11am, will not be permitted to take a Final Makeup and will
automatically receive a nonpassing grade. No person [repeat: NO
ONE] will be permitted to take the Final examination before the
scheduled time and date.
There will be no discussion sections. But there will be
open-ended REVIEW SESSIONS: Tues.,Feb.28, 7 pm; Tues, Apr.11, 7pm;
and another Thursday, May 4, 7pm, before the FINAL, which will be
Tuesday, May 16, 8am-11am. Rooms TBA. |
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REQUIRED READING
will include all or most of the
following:
READER
[RDR] – available at Copy Central on Bancroft
Baldwin, James, The Fire Next Time (any edition).
Herring, George C. America’s Longest War, 4th edition.
Johnson, Haynes, Sleepwalking Through History
Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. [any edition]
Miller, Arthur, Death of a Salesman [any edition]
Orwell, George, 1984 [any edition]
Pertschuk, Michael. Revolt Against Regulation (U.C.Press)
Salinger, J,.D. Catcher in the Rye [any edition]
Updike, John. Rabbit Redux [any edition]
All books are available in the bookstores in paperback edition,
but the READER [RDR] is available only at Copy Central on Bancroft.
The following is a suggested schedule of reading. Although I
tailored the schedule to my plans for lectures, I may in fact alter
those plansperhaps in response to class interest, perhaps in
response to my own changing interests, or possibly because I fall
behind my anticipated schedule. In any case, the readings are
designed to prepare for and to complement the lectures, not serve as
the subject of lectures. You should keep up with the schedule
because you will be held responsible for the accumulated assignments
at the dates of the Midterms and the Final. All exams are
cumulative. |
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COMPLETE READING ASSIGNMENTS BY DATES
INDICATED:
Tues., Jan. 17– Informational Meeting
By Thursday, Jan. 19, READ:
RDR, Adams, “Mythmaking & the War”
By Tuesday, Jan.24: Overview:Eight Revolutions
RDR: Jane de Hart, “The New Feminism”
RDR: Friedan, “Feminine Mystique” (excerpt)
RDR: Degler, “Revolution”
RDR: Macdonald, “Invisible Poor”
RDR: Galambos & Pratt, “Corporate Commonwealth”
By Thursday, Feb.16: War, Cold War, and McCarthyism
RDR: Abrams, “Anticommunism,”
RDR: Maier, “Revisionism”
RDR: Alperowitz, “Hiroshima”
RDR: Crossman/Wright, from “The God That Failed”
RDR: Pearson, “Nazi-Soviet Pact”
Schaller, chs.3-4.
By Thursday, March 2: Eisenhowerism & The ‘Fifties
RDR: Wills, “Checkers”
Kerouac, On the Road, complete
Baldwin, The Fire Next Time, complete
Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, complete
Miller, Death of a Salesman, complete
******** MIDTERM – I: Thurs, March 2, in class, 9:30-11am
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Review Session, Tuesday February 28, 7pm,
Rm.TBA
By Tuesday, March 21: Law As an Instrument of Social Reform
RDR: Abrams, Korematsu v. US, and all other Supreme Court Cases
RDR: Wilkinson, From Brown to Bakke (excerpt)
RDR: Glennon, “The Role of Law”
*********SPRING BREAK: March 25 – April 2**********
By Tues., April 4: The ‘Sixties
RDR: Mailer, “White Negro”
RDR: Podhoretz, “My Negro Problem,”
RDR: de Hart, “The New Feminism” (review the article)
RDR: Brown, “Manchild in the Promised Land” (excerpt)
RDR: “The Port Huron Statement,”
RDR: Abrams, “Berkeley Students”
Updike, Rabbit Redux, complete.
By Thursday, April 13: The Great Society vs. Vietnam
Herring, The Longest War, complete.
******** SECOND MIDTERM: THURS., APRIL 13 , in class,
9:30-11am**********
Review Session, Tuesday, April 11, 7pm; Room
TBA
By Tuesday, April 25: Demise of the Liberal Democratic Coalition
RDR: Brinkley, “Means of Descent”
Pertschuk, Revolt Against Regulation, complete
RDR: Vogel, “The New Social Regulation”
By Thursday, May 4: The Counterrevolution, Continued
Haynes Johnson, Sleepwalking Through History, complete
RDR: Gaddis, “How the West Won the Cold War”
RDR: Deudney & Ikenberry, “Who Won the Cold War?”
RDR: Bell, “Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism”
George Orwell, 1984, complete
FINAL EXAMINATION – Tuesday, May 16, 8-11am. Room TBA
FINAL REVIEW SESSION: Thursday, May 11, 7pm-9pm. Room TBA
Review Sessions: 7pm-9pm, Tues., March 4; 7pm-9pm, Tues, Apr. 8;
and Thursday, May 11, 7pm-9pm. Rooms TBA.
[Note: If an assignment listed in the syllabus does not appear in
the READER (RDR), you will not be required to have read it.
Sometimes errors occur in the RDR contents.] |