The American Civil Rights Movement (U02603)

? Credit Points : 40 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : HCA-4-AMCIV

The course will examine key themes in the history of the American Civil Rights Movement. There is an ever expanding field with a rich historiography concerning the movement's chronology, composition, divisions, allies, limitations, and achievements. To investigate these issues, the course will focus on the movement's prerequisites and emergence, local and major civil rights groups, selected civil rights campaigns, the utility of non-violent direct action, the contribution of Martin Luther King, Jr., the federal government and civil rights, the response of whites, and the movement's long-term impact.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : A pass in a third level historical course or equivalent.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

History, (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Schedule E)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 4th year

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 22 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Thursday	09:00	10:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The course seeks to provide students with a good understanding of the American Civil Rights Movement and its impact. In line with the other Honours courses of the subject area, this course enhances historical skills acquired by students in earlier courses by using a range of secondary and primary sources. Students will develop the ability to analyse and assess different sources available to the historian. During the course students will examine and engage with relevant historiographical debates. Students' conceptual development will be fostered through both written and oral work. The course structure encourages advanced progress in student research and writing and advanced progress in presentations and group discussions. To enable the achievement of these objectives, the course will have a seminar format and be limited to a size that will permit all students to participate actively in discussions.