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| Udgave: |
Efterår 2012 Hum |
| Tilvalgskode: |
See Aim / Formål |
| ECTS points: |
15 ECTS |
| Årsværk: |
15 ECTS |
Semester: |
1 semester |
| Institutter: |
SAXO-Instituttet, Afdeling for Historie |
| Undervisere: |
Helle Porsdam, e-mail: porsdam@hum.ku.dk |
| Skema- oplysninger: |
 Vis skema for kurset
Samlet oversigt over tid og sted for alle kurser inden for Lektionsplan for Det Humanistiske Fakultet Efterår 2012 Hum |
| Første undervisningsgang: |
tuesday 4. September 2012 1PM-3PM (room 24.0.11) |
| Undervisnings- form: |
Group instruction / Seminar |
| Formål: |
Module I-VI [HHIA03412U]
The course can primarily be used as either Module I: Optional Historical Subject; Module II: Period Studies; Module III: History and Interdisciplinarity; Module IV: History and Social Sciences; Module V: Themes in Cultural History.
Period: after 1914
Curriculum for Master´s Programme in History, The 2008 Curriculum.
Elective Studies (Bachelor):
Module T4: Historical Theme, Fagelement 47271050 [HHIB10501E]
Module T5: Historical Project, Fagelement 47271051 [HHIB10511E]
Curriculum for the Elective Studies in History,The 2007 Curriculum. |
| Indhold: |
Martin Luther King, Jr., is widely celebrated as an American civil rights hero. Yet, as recent historical research has shown, King’s nonviolent opposition to racism, militarism, and economic injustice had deeper roots and more radical implications than is commonly appreciated. Between the 1940s and the 1960s, King was influenced by and in turn reshaped the political cultures of the black freedom movement and democratic left. His vision of human rights drew on the diverse tenets of the African American social gospel, socialism, left-New Deal liberalism, Gandhian philosophy, and Popular Front internationalism.
King’s early leadership reached beyond southern desegregation and voting rights. As the freedom movement of the 1950s and early 1960s confronted poverty and economic reprisals, King championed trade union rights, equal job opportunities, metropolitan integration, and full employment. When the civil rights and antipoverty policies of the Johnson administration failed to deliver on the movement’s goals of economic freedom for all, King demanded that the federal government guarantee jobs, income, and local power for poor people. When the Vietnam war stalled domestic liberalism, King called on the nation to abandon imperialism and become a global force for multiracial democracy and economic justice.
Using King as our point of departure, we will look at how civil rights became human rights. US historian Samuel Moyn has argued that it was in the 1970s that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. And demonstrating how the US became both more and less equal, and linking this development to international trends, another US historian, Thomas Borstelmann, has argued that the 1970s profoundly transformed America and the world. We will read Moyn’s book on human rights as well as Borstelmann’s book on the 1970s – both of which put into perspective King’s open call for “a radical redistribution of political and economic power” in American cities, the nation, and the world.
Course objectives (beside the objectives stipulated in the curriculum):
• know US history from approximately 1950 to 1980
• know the importance of the civil rights movement in US history
• identify, analyze and discuss the relation of civil rights to human rights
• identify, analyze and discuss the most central issues and problems within the thematic area covered by the course
• identify and demonstrate knowledge of relevant theories concerning civil and human rights and their implication for national versus transnational history
• clearly communicate the key themes of the course |
| Litteratur: |
- Thomas Borstelmann: The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality. Princeton University Press, 2011.
- Thomas F. Jackson: From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
- Samuel Moyn: The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History. Harvard University Press, 2011. |
| Tilmelding: |
Course registration is carried out in the Selfservice on KUnet from 16 May to 1 June.
Late course registrations: 15 August – 10 September.
During the ordinary course registration period you must select 4 out of the 11 courses offered as Module I-VI courses [BA-students: Module T4 and T5] in descending order, if you want to make sure you have a seat on a course – or courses - before the Selfservice open up for late course registrations.
The result of the course registration will appear in the Selfservice no later than 15 August.
A late course registration - and any course changes you may want to make – is carried out in the Selfservice on Kunet. In the Selfservice it will show which courses are still open for late registration.
In connection with the course registration a Module [exam type] must be chosen. The exam registration can be changed when the Selfservice open up for exam editing in the autumn.
Further information regarding course registration in Danish
If you are a student from abroad, please contact chrislund@hum.ku.dk |
| Eksamensform: |
See Curriculum for Master´s Programme in History, The 2008 Curriculum
Elective Studies (BA-level):
Modul T4: Historical Theme, Fagelement 47271050 [HHIB10501E] (15 ECTS):
Form of examination: Set oral exam with synopsis.
Form of grading: external grading.
Form of assessment: 7-point grading scale.
Modul T5: Historical Project, Fagelement 47271051 [HHIB10511E] (15 ECTS):
Form of examination A: Free written take-home assignment.
Form of examination B: Communication Project.
Form of grading: external grading.
Form of assessment: 7-point grading scale.
See also Curriculum for the Elective Studies in History |
| Kursus hjemmeside: |
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| Kursus hjemmeside: |
When the course registration has been confirmed in the Selfservice on KUnet you will automatically be connected to the electronic courseroom in Absalon just before the beginning of the semester. Log on KUnet with your KU-Username and Password. If you are not connected to the electronic courseroom in Absalon at the beginning of the semester, please contact chrislund@hum.ku.dk with the following information: name, KU-Username, CPR-No., coursename and examtype.
If course registrations or changes is made In the late course registration period it will take three weekdays before it has an effect in Absalon |
| Undervisnings- sprog: |
Kun engelsk
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| Sidst redigeret: |
15/5-2012 |