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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Nothing against the professor, just my opinion LA the Cluster, this course - I don't know who started this "interdisciplinary" idea that seems cool but end up in a mess. Things are uncoordinated and professors randomly talk about their own research interest that don't really make sense with other materials in class. Hence I dub the term "GE Clusterfuck" to describe GE clusters, beware and heed my word.
Nothing against the professor, just my opinion LA the Cluster, this course - I don't know who started this "interdisciplinary" idea that seems cool but end up in a mess. Things are uncoordinated and professors randomly talk about their own research interest that don't really make sense with other materials in class. Hence I dub the term "GE Clusterfuck" to describe GE clusters, beware and heed my word.
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Fall 2021 - Your grade in this class heavily depends on your TA! For the Fall portion of this cluster, your grade mainly consists of your midterm (an in-class essay), a commercial analysis paper, and a book analysis paper. Your TA grades all of these, so make sure that you form a good relationship with them and go to their office hours in order to make your papers as seamless as possible! There are 4 professors that teach this class, my favorite one being Professor Vavreck, who is super concise and straightforward about the information she presents to you. The other professors are also great, and I highly recommend attending each lecture in order to completely understand the context of the situations you will be writing about. Overall, this portion of the cluster was not bad, though it was definitely a lot of work to get through. I would mainly recommend this class in order to secure 6 units and to knock off some GEs.
Fall 2021 - Your grade in this class heavily depends on your TA! For the Fall portion of this cluster, your grade mainly consists of your midterm (an in-class essay), a commercial analysis paper, and a book analysis paper. Your TA grades all of these, so make sure that you form a good relationship with them and go to their office hours in order to make your papers as seamless as possible! There are 4 professors that teach this class, my favorite one being Professor Vavreck, who is super concise and straightforward about the information she presents to you. The other professors are also great, and I highly recommend attending each lecture in order to completely understand the context of the situations you will be writing about. Overall, this portion of the cluster was not bad, though it was definitely a lot of work to get through. I would mainly recommend this class in order to secure 6 units and to knock off some GEs.
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