HIST 460
The Age of Lyndon B. Johnson Fall 2009
Division II
Cross-listed LEAD 460
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The election of Barack H. Obama would not have been possible without the achievements of the Great Society–specifically, the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, 1965, and 1968 plus the Immigration Reform Act of 1965. Other landmark legislation in education, environmentalism, poverty, public communications, health care, transportation, the arts, and humanities established the basic contours of today’s society. In foreign affairs, the Johnson years are burdened with Vietnam, but that debacle was counterbalanced in part by achievements in the Middle East, Central America and Europe. This course will explore the causes and consequences of one of the twentieth century’s great reform movements and examine the bases of the Johnson administration’s foreign policies.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 15
Expected: 15
Class#: 1102
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: evaluation will be based on two comparative book reviews, oral and written, and a twenty page research paper
Prerequisites: some familiarity with twentieth-century American history
Enrollment Preferences: History majors and Leadership Studies concentrators
Unit Notes: meets Group F requirement in History major only if registration is under HIST
Distributions: Division II
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
LEAD 460 Division II HIST 460 Division II
Attributes: HIST Group F Electives - U.S. + Canada

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