STANDARD COMPETENCIES

 

 Upon completion of this course, the student should demonstrate knowledge and/or skill in the following areas:

 

 1. Demonstrate knowledge of the goals, beliefs, and activities of various political actors in the United States in the 1960s;

 2. Demonstrate a comprehension of the significance of the 1960s as a period of change in American life.

 3. Analyze the nature and importance of the liberations struggles of various groups in American society—including African Americans,

    women, gays and lesbians and Native Americans—as they emerged and/or proceeded during the 1960s.

 4. Evaluate critically contemporary reference to “the Sixties”

 5. Describe and discuss the important leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, explain their values and goals, and evaluate their attempts to change their world

 6. Apply critical thinking skills to the analysis of primary and secondary sources, including both written and visual media, pertaining to the Sixties

 7. Four general goals integrate history with workplace skills:

      a. Acquire information from many sources

      b. Break complex and multiple sources of information down into parts to create clearer understanding

      c. Demonstrates an understanding of the impact of time and space on perspective

      d. Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence

 8. Throughout the course, students should be introduced to course content, practice using course content, and demonstrate they can:

      a. Describe how peoples, groups, cultures, and institutions covered in this course changed over time

      b. Demonstrate an understanding of the events covered in the course in historical context and demonstrates recognition how social, cultural,

         gender, race, religion, nationality and other identities affect historical perspective

      c. Demonstrate an ability to communicate orally and in writing about the subject of the course and select and apply contemporary forms of technology

         to solve problems and compile information

      d. Demonstrate an ability to use different resources for historical research, including libraries, databases, bibliographies and archives

      e. Analyze secondary sources and recognize differences in historical interpretation

      f. Evaluate types of primary sources, the point of view and purpose of their author or creator

      g. Create substantive writing samples which employ critical analysis of primary and secondary sources, and document those sources correctly

      h. Demonstrate an ability to construct knowledge in the discipline and synthesize historical narratives and timelines from primary and secondary

         sources, maps, and/or artifacts and critically analyze, interpret and evaluate many different points of view to construct historical arguments  and/or

         artifacts and critically analyze, interpret and evaluate many different points of view to construct historical arguments

 

 TOPICAL OUTLINE

 

 I. Cold War America

 II. The Kennedy Presidency

 III. The Great Society and liberalism

 IV. Civil Rights: Acts and Movements

 V. The Warren Court

 VI. Vietnam

 VII. The Rise of the Counterculture and the Summer of Love

 VIII. Black Power Push and White Backlash

 IX. 1968

 X. The Nixon Presidency

 XI. The Climax and the Demise of the Sixties

 XII. Watergate

 XIII. Fall of Saigon

 XIV. The Legacies of the Sixties