HIST 4200 Politics and Social Movements

This senior-level History seminar focuses on politics and social movements in diverse societies during the Cold War. It begins with a historical survey of World War II to identify the roots of the Cold War and the emergence of the Three-World Order that came to characterize the post-1945 period. Thereafter, it examines critical social movements in the First, Second, and Third World during the Cold War with special emphasis on the 1960s and 1980s. The course integrates multi-disciplinary approaches and materials to analyze how the Cold War impacted social movements and how Cold War politics in turn were influenced by social movements. The course requires a research paper combining a variety of approaches and documentation pertaining to the history of social movements at the end of the Cold War, plus other ongoing formal writing assignments throughout the course. This course fulfills the UCC Writing Intensive and Area 5 Civic Engagement requirements. Prerequisite(s): HIST 2600
Credits: 3.0