Jun 30, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

HIST 3220 - 1960s in U.S.: Decade of Controversy


Allows students to go beyond the popular stereotypes of the 1960s to understand the decade as a period of social, cultural and political confrontation that laid the groundwork for life in the present-day United States. Primary focus on social protest movements of the era; the Civil Rights movement, the student movement, the antiwar movement, the counterculture, and the women’s movement.

Requisites: Soph or Jr or Sr
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be critical readers of primary and secondary sources.
  • Students will master formal styles of writing and argumentation that historians use in their work.
  • Students will understand the roles of gender, race, class, and ethnicity in the history of the 1960s.


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