Reflections on a Turbulent Decade Students in the Senior History Elective: 1968 course began the year reflecting on their own political commitments, as framed by writings of 1960s campus activists and other voices from this turbulent decade of social change. Later in the semester, they carefully compared social movements of the period, wrote a cultural critique of of the song “Yellow Submarine” and pursued in-depth research on 1960s issues — radical feminism, views on homosexuality and the Prague Spring, to name a few — which became the basis of a paper they created and a class they taught to fellow students.
For their final assignment, the seniors selected excerpts from varied readings that represented for them seminal moments in the course. In response to each excerpt, students wrote a short reflection explaining how the texts shed light on their understanding of the 1960s and its connection to their contemporary political ruminations. Following are two student examples.
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