Dissent in America - JTM338

• Title: Dissent in America
• Guaranteed by: Department of North American Studies (23-KAS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:combined
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, Ex [TS]
• Extent per academic year: 2 [weeks]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (15)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Level: specialized
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Ralph Young
• Class: Courses for incoming students

Teaching methods

Lecture/seminar

The course is a block course, the class will meet in the following dates in 2022: 9-13 May (15:30-18:20) at the Skautsky Institut, room "René": https://www.skautskyinstitut.cz/rene

Last update: Hornát Jan, PhDr., Ph.D. (20.04.2022)

Requirements to the exam

Research Project: Using a combination of primary and secondary sources write an 8-10 page paper on the nature of dissent. What impact has dissent had on the course of American history? And what influence, if any, have voices of dissent in the United States had on other protest movements around the world. What is dissent? Is it an effective force for change? Or merely a safety valve for letting off steam? Should dissent consist solely of peaceful non-violent demonstrations? Under what circumstances should it ever become violent? Or should it never become violent? What is the difference between legitimate grievances and injustices and perceived grievances and injustices? Also, be sure to discuss various forms of dissent. There are many documents in Dissent in America: Voices That Shaped a Nation that can be a starting point for your research.

The course will be graded as per the Dean´s provision https://www.fsv.cuni.cz/opatreni-dekanky-c-172018aj.

Last update: Hornát Jan, PhDr., Ph.D. (27.01.2022)

Syllabus

Dissent in America

 

Dr. Ralph Young ([e-mail])

 

The course is a block course, the class will meet in the following dates in 2022: 9-13 May (15:30-18:20) at the Skautsky Institut, room "René": https://www.skautskyinstitut.cz/rene

 

 Topics: 

 

1)                               The European Origins, Dissent in the Colonies, the Early Republic

Luther, Calvin, Puritanism, Roger Williams, John Peter Zenger, Thomas Paine, Abigail Adams, Thomas Hutchinson

Readings: Dissent in America, 1-85

 

2)                     Dissent in the 19^th Century

                        Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Civil War dissenters,

Chief Joseph, W.E.B. DuBois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Carl Schurz, Mother Jones

Readings: DiA, 87-232

 

3)                    Progressivism and Wars

The Socialist Party, IWW, Emma Goldman, Joe Hill, Eugene V. Debs, Randolph Bourne, Marcus Garvey, Margaret Sanger, H.L. Mencken, Huey Long, Father Coughlin, Margaret Chase Smith, Paul Robeson, the Beats

Readings: DiA, 233-338

 

4)                     The 1960s: Civil Rights, Vietnam, & the Counterculture

                        Martin Luther King, Songs of the Civil Rights Movement, Stokely Carmichael, Black Panther Party, SDS, The Weather Underground, Timothy Leary, Make Love Not War, Protest Music: Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, The Fugs, Creedence Clearwater Revival, From Columbia to the Sorbonne to the Prague Spring.

Readings: DiA, 339-403

 

5)                     Mobilization and the Globalization of Dissent
Redstockings, Stonewall, Ani DiFranco, Immortal Technique, The Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, Arab Spring, Brexit, Trumpianism.

Readings: DiA, 403-478 

 

Last update: Hornát Jan, PhDr., Ph.D. (20.04.2022)