HISTORY OF AMERICAN DISSENTING (PROTEST) MOVEMENTS

AMER595

Course Code: AMER595
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 10

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Master's Degree Without Thesis

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

will be able to discuss the historical overview of social and political dissent/protest in America from the American Revolution to the present day,
will be able to explore how American dissent/protest movements have employed the discourses of religion, philosophy, politics, and gender,
will be able to examine forms of dissent in American history, ranging from passive resistance to violent protest.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Description

The course will concentrate on the history of dissent in America, beginning with the American Revolution and focusing on movements such as Civil Disobedience, the Anti-Slavery Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, the Women's Movement, Anti-War campaigns, the Agrarian Movement, the Peace Movement, etc.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	The Making of the American Revolution: The Protestant (Puritan) Dissent Rhetoric
2^nd Week	The Making of the American Revolution: The Political and Philosophical Rhetoric of the Enlightenment
3^rd Week	Civil Disobedience: The Individual versus Political Authority
4^th Week	Pro-Slavery and Anti-Slavery Movements
5^th Week	Women's Rights: The Suffragists
6^th Week	Student Presentations
7^th Week	Student Presentations
8^th Week	Industrialization and Its Discontents
9^th Week	Politics and Its Discontents: from the Early 20th Century to McCarthyism
10^th Week	The Sixties: Against Vietnam
11^th Week	The Sixties and Beyond: Civil Rights Movements
12^th Week	The Sixties and Beyond: Feminist Movements
13^th Week	Student Presentations
14^th Week	Student Presentations

Recommended or Required Reading

Bush, Harold K. American Declarations: Rebellion and Repentance in American Cultural History. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1999.

Denning, Michael. The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century. London and New York: Verso, 1997.

Fink, Leon. "American Labor History." The New American History. Ed. Eric Foner. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1990. 233-50.

Sanchez-Eppler, Karen. "Bodily Bonds: The Intersecting Rhetorics of Feminism and Abolition." The New American Studies: Essays from Representations. Ed. Philip Fisher. Berkeley: U of California P, 1991. 228-59.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion
Presentation

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Project	1	30
Attendance	1	10
Presentation of Article	2	20
Total(%)		60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		40
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	14	5	70
Preparation for Final exam	1	10	10
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam	1	3	3
Homework
Project	1	60	60
Article Presentation	2	25	50
Weekly Articles and Resource Research	14	5	70
Total Work Load			305
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			10.16
ECTS Credit of the Course			10

Language of Instruction

English

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

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