AC 200
COURSE SYLLABUS
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Department of American Literature and Civilization















Week 1: 9/13-9/17
Class and Culture in the Gilded Age
Week 2: 9/20-9/24
Race and Nation at the End of the Century
Week 3: 9/27-10/1
Challenges to Genteel Culture
 
Week 4: 10/4-10/8 
                  Modernism and Protest
Week 5: 10/11-10/15
Immigrants, the City and the American Dream/Harlem and the Jazz Age
Week 6: 10/18-10/22
Harlem and the Jazz Age, Continued
Week 7: 10/25-10/29
The Great Depression
Week 8: 11/1-11/5
Cultural Mobilization in the "Good War"
Week 9: 11/8-11/12
"Happy Days": Cold War Cultural Consensus
Week 10: 11/15-11/18
Cultural Dissent in the 1950s
Week 11: 11/22-11/26
Social Change at the End of the Decade
Week 12: 11/29-12/4
The Radical Sixties
Week 13: 12/6-12/10
Watergate and the "Buy-Centennial"
 
Final Exam
Tuesday, Dec. 14, 7-10 p.m.