Early exam (esonero) of March 4th

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PLEASE READ VERY VERY CAREFULLY:

This early exam is offered IN PERSON ONLY. However, if you have tested positive for Covid in the 14 days before the exam and have not yet tested negative, remote arrangements will be made for you. If you are under these circumstances, email me with FULL DOCUMENTATION before the exam and you will receive all necessary instructions.

  • Only students attending 70% of my in-person session (these include remote attendants during the first two weeks) are admitted to take this early exam (esonero). List of eligible students will be published here in the coming days.
  • This exam is administered via Moodle ( https://elearning.unito.it/lingue/course/view.php?id=1145 – see under under EARLY TEST n. 1): details will be published on Moodle at least 3 days before the exam: make sure you read and fully understand them BEFORE the start of the exam.
  • Make sure you have your unito CREDENTIALS and ID with you at all times during the exam.
  • Make sure you try to log on to the course Moodle page BEFORE the exam, to make sure all is in working order.

Also, make sure you read my WRITTEN EXAM REQUIREMENTS wellbefore the exam (only part 1. The second part, re. Remote examinations, does not appl), at: https://sites.google.com/view/andreacarosso/home/remoteexams

Exam scores will be posted on this blog approx 1 week after the exam.

A.C.

An update on attendance requirement

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There seem to be a few students who are concerned re. my in-person attendance requirement. I’d like to clarify what follows:
1. In-person attendance is required ONLY of those students who wish to take early written exams (esoneri) in March and April – see course calendar below for dates and details. For all others, there is no attendance requirement, although attendance is obviously (as ever) HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

2. Since travelling to class may be initially problematic for some, I will waive the IN-PERSON attendance requirment for the first two weeks of classes. Therefore, during weeks ONE and TWO, students will be able to sign attendance also from remote. After the first two weeks, and hoping the emergency situation improves, my policy will return to its original formulation.

Best wishes,

A. Carosso

Covid classroom protocols

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University guidelines for the second semester 2021-22 mandate that, in February at least, EVERYONE wear a mask (possibly an FFP2) during class. This includes instructors. This may prove challenging, for anyone speaking or listening. But obviously safety comes first and we will have to adapt.

PLEASE BE RESPONSIBLE AND FOLLOW THE RULES: if you are feeling unwell, have a temperature (even slight) or have had contact with a Covid-positive person, you MUST follow the class REMOTELY. If this happens, just write to me BEFORE the start of class and I will count you as attending.

Hopefully the situation will improve over time, and the classroom mask mandate will, at least in part, end as we go into March and April.

We will therefore meet as planned on Thursday, Feb 3, at 2 pm in Room 2 (second floor), Aldo Moro for our first session. Any changes to classroom procedures will be posted on this blog. Please return at least once a week.

A.C.

COURSE REGISTRATION

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Self-registration for this class is now closed. If you would like to be added to my roster, please email me at andrea.carosso@unito.it, explaining why you did not register by the first week of class. Include your full name, matriculation number and CdL (L-11, L-12, erasmus or other).

Only registered students are admitted to the final exam & Moodle.

A.C.

COURSE SYLLABUS and CALENDAR

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This course is taught in-person AND streamed live via WebEx at https://unito.webex.com/meet/andrea.carosso. Online attendance alone is NOT recommended. Streamed sessions will NOT be recorded. For technical reasons, films and documentaries will NOT be streamed. This course focuses on student participation and class interaction.

ALL CLASSES are 2 to 5 pm on Thursdays AND Fridays, 6 hours a week for 10 weeks. ALL SESSIONS are held at at Centro Aldo Moro, room 2. All your questions re. “when/where do we meet”? and “is there class on THIS or THAT day?”, or “what should I read on any given day?” are answered HERE. Please don’t email or ask otherwise. Just use THIS CALENDAR. Thank you.

COURSE STRUCTURE:
This course is structured is part as a LECTURE COURSE, in part as a DISCUSSION SEMINAR. Students are expected to READ texts BEFORE CLASS an INTERACT ON them in class.

**EXAMS WILL BE HELD IN PERSON ONLY**

FULL COURSE CALENDAR & WEEKLY READING LIST: This is the OFFICIAL, CONFIRMED COURSE CALENDAR and indicates in detail the weekly discuss topics. Do not email me asking confirmation of the course calendar: this is it.

WEEKDATEweek’s TOPICweek’s texts (from course reader)week’s books & screenings
1Feb 3-4Understanding the Cold War:
The Long 1950s		Course introduction

Gitlin, “Cornucopia and its discontents”; Nixon and Kruschev, “The Kitchen debate”; JFK, “Inaugural Address”; JFK, “Address to the Nation on Missile Crisis”, Tunzelmann, review of “Thirteen Days”.		this week’s screening: Thirteen Days (Roger Donaldson, 2000)
2Feb 10-11“Ask not …” : The Progressive
Decade		JFK-Nixon, “Presidential Debate” (opening remarks); Farber, “The world as seen from the White House”; Brinkley, “The Ordeal of Liberalism” (part1); Ling, John F. Kennedy (intro); JFK, “Decision to go to the moon”; M. Harrington, from The Other America; L. Johnson, “Great Society” speech; R. Reagan, “A Time for Choosing”.

week’s novel: Don DeLillo, Libra, part 1
3Feb 17-18Dallas and the
Making of the Kennedy Myth		Wilcox, “Don DeLillo’s Libra“.this week’s novel: Don DeLillo, Libra, part 2 (begins with chapter “In Moscow”)

this week’s screening: JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991)
4Feb 24-25Youth Culture, the New Left and
the Student Movement		Heale, “The spirit of the Sixties”; “Port Huron Statement”; H. Marcuse, “New forms of Social Control” (from One-Dimensional Man); M. Savio, “An end to history”; Isserman-Kazin, “The Making of a Youth Culture”; Monteith, “Music and Performance” (from Am. Culture in the 1960s)

Relevant Movies: No Direction Home (M. Scorsese, 2005); The Beatles, Eight Days a Week (R. Howard, 2016); The TAMI Awards (1964); Standing in the Shadows of Motown (P. Justman, 2002)		this week’s novel: Don DeLillo, Libra, part 3

excerpts from: Berkeley in the 60’s
5March 3-4REVIEW and EARLY EXAM 1March 3 at 2 pm: REVIEW SESSION

March 4 at 2.00 pm, Aula Informatica 1, Aldo Moro (esonero – covering materials for weeks 1 through 4 – – only for students who have attended at least 70% of sessions in the 1st part of the semester).		 
6Mar 17-18“A Change is Gonna Come”: The Civil Rights MovementFarber, “Freedom”; G. Wallace, “Inaugural Address”; M.L. King, “The Power of non violence”; M.L. King, “I have a dream”; Heale, “The African American Revolt: Civil Rights to Black Power;”

Other relevant movies: Mississippi Burning (Alan Parker, 1988);		this week’s screening: Selma (Ava Du Vernay, 2015).

excerpts from: Eyes on the Prize (Blackside, 1993); Black Panthers, Vanguard of the Revolution (Stanley Nelson, 2015)

7Mar 24-25Apocalypse in the 1960s: the Vietnam
“Quagmire”		Brinkley, “The Ordeal of Liberalism” (part2); CBS news – W. Cronkite, “Who what, when, where and why”; Appy-Bloom, “Vietnam War Mythologies”; McWilliams, “The Anti-War Movement”. Monteith, “Muhammed Ali”; Calloway, “Metafiction in The Things they Crried”.

Other relevant Movies: The Strawberry Statement (Stuart Hagmann, 1970);		this week’s novel: Tim O’Brien, The Things
they carried (part1).

this week’s screening: Apocalypse Now (Francis
Ford Coppola, 1979)

excerpts from: Berkeley in the 60’s
March 25 at 2pm: Guest Lecture: Stefano Rosso (Univ. Bergano): The Vietnam War in Literature. Tim O Brien’s The Things They Carried 
8Mar 31 – Apr 1Counterculture and
the Summer of Love		H. Marcuse, “Essay on Liberation”; Mc Williams, “Tune in, turn on, drop out”; Newsweek, “Unstructured relations”; T. Leary, “The Politics of Ecstasy”; Hedgepath, “Communes: The Alternative; New Yorker, “A Fleeting, Wonderful Moment of Community”; Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, chapter 1; Koedt, “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” (1970)

Other relevant movies: The Company You Keep (Robert Redford, 2012); Hair (1967; Milos Forman, 1979); Summer of Soul (2021, Questlove); Wattstacks (Mel Stuart, 1973)		this week’s novel: Tim O’Brien, The Things
they carried (part2).

this week’s screening: Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969);

excerpts from: Berkeley in the 60’s; Monterey Pop (D. A. Pennebaker, 1968); Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh, 1970); Gimme Shelter (A. & D. Maysel, 1970);
9Apr 21-22STUDENT PROJECTSthis week’s reading: J. Didion, The White Album
April 22 at 2pm: Guest Lecture: Cinzia Scarpino (Univ. Milano Statale): Joan Didion’s 1960s America 
10Apr 28-29REVIEW and EARLY EXAM 2April 28 at 2 pm: REVIEW SESSION

April 29 at 2.00 pm, Aula Informatica 1, Aldo Moro (esonero – covering materials for weeks 6 through 9 – – only for students who have attended at least 70% of sessions in the 2nd part of the semester).		 
OFFICIAL WRITTEN EXAMWednesday, May 11, Aula Informatica 2, Aldo Moro: (ONLY for students who will still need to take one – or both – written exams).
@ 2pm: written exam n. 1
@ 4pm: written exam n. 2

(this 4-hour exam will also be offered in September and January 2023, although I do NOT RECOMMEND taking it so late in the year).
 

COURSE DESCRIPTION AND REQUIREMENTS

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STUDENTS WISHING TO TAKE AND COMPLETE THIS COURSE MUST READ AND FULLY UNDERSTAND ALL INFORMATION BELOW. THERE WILL BE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THESE RULES. THANK YOU.

If you are a student of this class, you should return to this blog at least once a week beginning in mid-January 2022. Class materials, announcements and course information will be posted HERE.

Before emailing me, please read this course blog carefully in its entirety!! I MEAN everything I write here (and elsewhere): please do not email to confirm things I have already written. Ignorance of the course rules and syllabus is NOT an excuse for not following the Syllabus/Rules. Each student is responsible for understanding and following the intent of every rule.

COURSE TITLE: ‘A change is gonna come’: American Culture in the 1960s

COURSE DESCRIPTION:  This course will analyze – through literature, critical theory, film, music and the visual arts – the troubled and defining decade of the 1960s in America, by looking at some of its defining protagonists and events, including JKF, M.L. King, Vietnam, student protests, feminism and Woodstock.

Good proficiency in written and spoken English, a desire to learn and participate in classroom activity, and a curiosity for all things American highlight the ideal profile of students in this course.

This course is fully taught in English.

SEMINAR SESSIONS, SCHEDULE, VENUE: This course is taught in the second semester of 2021-22, 6 hours per week, beginning in February. The course calendar in the post above provides a week by week breakdown of the course materials. Please review this course blog on updates on the publication of lectures and discussion sessions.

COURSE REGISTRATION: Students attending this course MUST sign up using the link in one of the posts above. Unregistered students will not be admitted to the Moodle materials nor to the final examinations.

REQUIRED TEXTS:
A. STUDENTS MUST PURCHASE and study
1. Don DeLillo, Libra.
2. Tim O’Brien, The Things they Carried.
3. Joan Didion, The White Album
PLEASE NOTICE: E-books are not suitable for university study. Students must own PRINT COPIES of these books BEFORE the start of classes.

B. STUDENTS MUST DOWNLOAD and study a course reader (parts 1 and 2, available from the course blog at the start of weeks 1 and 6) containing essays and other materials relevant to the course.

C. STUDENTS MUST WATCH films and other video excerpts. These will be presented during class and will be included in the examination questions.

STUDENT EVALUATION AND GRADING: 
Course syllabus is the same for ALL students and consists of 2 written tests (mandatory for all) and one oral interview. Students must pass both written tests in order to be admitted to the oral interview. The oral interview is waived for those students giving a CLASSROOM PRESENTATION during week 9. Written tests are offered during the course (as “esoneri”) to students with a regular IN PERSON attendance record (minimum attendance: 70%) or as official written exams, once per examination session (May, September, January). Both tests are taken at the same time – except for “esoneri”, when tests are taken one at a time. After the January 2023 session, examinations for this course will NO LONGER BE OFFERED and my syllabus will change.

NON ATTENDING STUDENTS:
A non attending is ANY student who has not attended AT LEAST 70% of IN PERSON sessions. Non attending students MUST:

1. meet with the professor during office hours at least one month before taking the written exam (and preferably BEFORE the start of classes) AND

2. attend at least TWO CLASSROOM SESSIONS during the semester, in person or remotely.

Students who do not comply with these two, simple requirements are not admitted to take the final written and oral exams.

EXCHANGE STUDENTS wishing to complete this course must attend regularly and must request to be admitted to the course by writing to me BEFORE the start of the course.

HAVE A GREAT SEMESTER
A. Carosso

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