CLUSTER 60A
America in Sixties: Politics, Society, and Culture, 1954 to 1974
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Course 60A is enforced requisite to 60B, which is enforced requisite to 60CW. Limited to first-year freshmen. Interdisciplinary exploration of U.S. society from Brown versus Board of Education (1954) to resignation of Nixon. Topics include civil rights, Great Society, anti-Vietnam war movement, political and artistic countercultures, and changes in technology, law, and media. Letter grading.
Units: 6.0
Units: 6.0
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Fall 2024 - Avila’s lectures can be really poetic and interesting if you care about architecture or history, but they can also feel like a grandfather rambling about buildings and shapes if you don’t. However, he really is a sweet and knowledgeable person who specializes in the city of LA and Chicano history, so his content is pretty unique and gives that specific perspective on the cluster. He doesn’t have a big role in the first quarter (I believe he only gets 3 lectures), but all of his lectures build off of one another and he has a large focus in winter quarter, so pay attention to those few fall quarter classes. His assigned readings can range from very minimal to extremely broad, and I felt they were overall unnecessary to be successful in the class because his lectures are pretty thorough.
Fall 2024 - Avila’s lectures can be really poetic and interesting if you care about architecture or history, but they can also feel like a grandfather rambling about buildings and shapes if you don’t. However, he really is a sweet and knowledgeable person who specializes in the city of LA and Chicano history, so his content is pretty unique and gives that specific perspective on the cluster. He doesn’t have a big role in the first quarter (I believe he only gets 3 lectures), but all of his lectures build off of one another and he has a large focus in winter quarter, so pay attention to those few fall quarter classes. His assigned readings can range from very minimal to extremely broad, and I felt they were overall unnecessary to be successful in the class because his lectures are pretty thorough.
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Fall 2018 - Decker is probably the sweetest but most boring professor I’ve had at UCLA. The dude is a little boring but you manage to get through it. However, again he’s a very nice guy. Would not recommend taking this cluster, take another one if you want the credit. This cluster is an interesting time in history but the faculty is very disorganized in teaching it. As a history major, they do a poor job of keeping it on a time sequence. The class bores you with readings that are too long and focusing on things that are very bland in the Sixties with no time frame whatsoever. Adam Bakr is an awesome TA though, if he’s a TA next year you should Forsure take it.
Fall 2018 - Decker is probably the sweetest but most boring professor I’ve had at UCLA. The dude is a little boring but you manage to get through it. However, again he’s a very nice guy. Would not recommend taking this cluster, take another one if you want the credit. This cluster is an interesting time in history but the faculty is very disorganized in teaching it. As a history major, they do a poor job of keeping it on a time sequence. The class bores you with readings that are too long and focusing on things that are very bland in the Sixties with no time frame whatsoever. Adam Bakr is an awesome TA though, if he’s a TA next year you should Forsure take it.
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