From the Sixties to Now: Using Music to Explore Issues of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary American History

Course Summary

What do Gil Scott-Heron, Bikini Kill, and Beyonce all have in common?

Their music offers a unique perspective on social movements and cultural revolutions during the second half of the twentieth century. The sounds they created — jazz, salsa, rock and roll, soul, hip hop —are a gateway into U.S. culture that represents multiple stakeholders and excites students in the process. This course will use music from the 1960s and to the near-present to explore issues of race, gender, and sexuality in twentieth-century America.

From The Sixties to Now will feature content from the Rock and Roll Forever Foundation’s collaboration with the CNN Soundtracks series available free to participants at Teachrock.org.

Course Dates: September 14 - October 23, 2020 

 Professional Development Hours: 35

Course Registration Fee: $125.00 

Humanities In Class Online Course Refund,  Transfer & Cancellation Policy

• Refund Policy: Humanities In Class Online Course registrants occasionally are presented with circumstances that prevent them from participating in registered courses. In order to qualify for a refund of fees, registrants must submit their written request according to the following guidelines:

  • If the cancellation request is received more than fourteen (14) days before the course start date, the registrar will refund the course registration, less a $25 cancellation fee.

  • If the cancellation request is received between seven (7) and fourteen (14) days of the course start date, the registrar will refund fifty percent (50%) of course registration, less a $25 cancellation fee.

  • If the cancellation request is received less than seven (7) days before the course start date, no refund will be given.

• Transfer Policy: Humanities In Class Online Courses are offered during Spring, Summer and Fall sessions. In the event that unforeseen circumstances prevent a registrant from enrolling in a current course offering, they will have the option of transferring the amounts paid to a future, calendared course. 

• Cancellation Policy: In the event that an online course is canceled by the National Humanities Center, registrants will be given the option of transferring their registration to another course or receiving a full refund of their registration fee.