This is a rough, preliminary schedule:
WEEK ONE: THE BEATS 1945 THROUGHT THE 1950s
GITLIN 1 - 77; Godfrey Hodgson, "The Ideology of the Liberal Consensus" (from America in Our Time, middle of 74 - top of 90 ( = 13);
Allen Ginsberg,“Howl” and “Footnote to Howl”; you can listen to part of “Howl” at http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=1550;
Allen Ginsberg, “America,” “Sunflower Sutra,” "A Supermarket in California"
Jack Kerouac: from On the Road
WEEK TWO : BEATS CONTINUED
William Burroughs from Naked Lunch
Gary Snyder, poems
Kerouac, from Dharma Bums
WEEK THREE:
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT BLACK AND WHITE RADICALS
GITLIN 81 - 192;
James Baldwin, from The Fire Next Time
Ralph Ellison, from Invisible Man
Ira Chernus, “Martin Luther King, Jr.”; King, I Have A Dream;
The Port Huron Statement http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Manifestos/SDS_Port_Huron.html
(the condensed version is “selections from The Port Huron Statement”)
WEEK FOUR: BOURGEOIS SOCIETY
Joan Didion, from The White Album
ROSZAK, The Making of a Counterculture, Preface, Chapters I and VII, Appendix ;
Robert Wuthnow, After Heaven, Chapter 2: "In the House of the Lord" (Norlin reserve or e-book: see http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/how/ebooks.htm for instructions on accessing e-book )
WEEK FIVE; ALTERNATIVE REALITIES
John Barth, from Lost in the Funhouse
WATTS, The Book, Chapters 1 - 3; WATTS, Wisdom of Insecurity, Chapters I - IV;
Alan Watts, “Psychedelics and Religious Experience” (The California Law Review, January, 1968)
WEEK SIX: AGAINST TECHNOLOGY:
Norman Mailer, from Of a Fire on the Moon
Thomas Pynchon, from Slow Learner and Crying of Lot 49
WATTS, The Book, Chapters 4 - 6; WATTS, Wisdom of Insecurity, Chapters V - IX; ROSZAK, The Making of a Counterculture, Chapters II and IV
WEEK SEVEN THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT:
Vonnegut from Slaughterhouse Five
Mailer, from Armies of the Night
Ira Chernus, “
Mar. 19: Woodstock (We will watch the film on Tuesday, March 18, 6 - 10 PM, place to be announced.)
ROSZAK, The Making of a Counterculture Chapter III;
Robert Wuthnow, After Heaven, Chapter 3, "The New Spiritual Freedom"
Chernus, "Religion as a Cultural System: The Theory of Clifford Geertz"; Clifford Geertz, "Religion as a Cultural System"
WEEK EIGHT: ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT CONTINUED
Dispatches
The Things They Carried
Week Nine: the Folk Music Revolution
Bob Dylan (read and listen):
“Gates of Eden” http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/gates.html,
“Ballad of a Thin Man” http://bobdylan.com/songs/thinman.html,
“Subterranean Homesick Blues” http://bobdylan.com/songs/subterranean.html,
“It’s Alright Ma” http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/itsalright.html,
“Like a Rolling Stone” http://bobdylan.com/songs/rolling.html,
“Visions of Johanna” http://bobdylan.com/songs/visions.html
WEEK NINE: NATIVE AMERICAN VOICES
Sherman Alexie
Louise Erdritch
WEEK TEN : A Women’s Poetry
Plath, Sexton, Rich
WEEK ELEVEN: BLACK GENRE FICTION
Walter Mosley, Octavia Butler
WEEK TWELVE: ENVIRONMENTAL OUTLAW
Edward Abbey