HIS 269 - The 1960’s and the Vietnam War

Credit(s) 3.00
Lecture Hours: 3.00
This course provides students with perspectives of the turbulent cultural, political, and social changes of the 1960s and early 1970s during the administrations of Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, the causes and consequences of the Vietnam conflict, and the Watergate affair.

Prerequisite(s): minimum English placement score based on college assessment
Recommended and Non-Course Requisites:

ENG 105

SLOs:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Analyze the historical transformations of the era.
Debate the basic tenants of the changing liberal and conservative political and economic ideologies.
Explain the triumph of American capitalism between 1960 and 1975.
Critically analyze the emergence of a new social order between 1960 and 1975.
Examine the culture of affluence and anxiety that defined this era.
Compare and contrast the application of the American foreign policy under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon.
Compare and contrast the domestic policies of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon.
Examine the long term and immediate motivation for the United States’ involvement in Vietnam.
Analyze the ascendancy of Nixon and the factors which led to the development and exposure of the Watergate scandal.
Proficiently write and evaluate interpretations of major topics of the era.