HST 401: Senior Seminar: The Global Seventies
W 12:45 pm – 3:30 pm
Mr. Khalil
The 1970s have often been dismissed as a decade of decline. Yet from détente to disco and human rights to the “New Hollywood,” it was a dynamic and transformational period. This research and writing seminar will examine the “long 1970s” from 1968 to 1980 in a global perspective. Students will complete an original 25-page research paper that relies largely on primary sources. Possible paper topics include an examination of the relationship between the United States and a country or political movement; the role of a political or social movement or issue; the influence of media, literature, film, music or sports.
Browsing Print Books by Call Number
Although some older books are perhaps classified in the Dewey Decimal Classification System, most Syracuse University Libraries print resources are classified in and physically arranged according to the alpha-numeric Library of Congress (LC) Classification System.
The LC system has allocated Class D to World History and Classes E and F to American History. “D” call numbers are assigned to History holdings that are shelved both in the Reference Collection and in the general and oversize stacks on the 2nd floor of Bird Library.
“E” and "F" call numbers are assigned to the U.S. and Latin American History holdings that are shelved in the Reference Collection on the 2nd floor of Bird Library and in the general and oversize stacks on the 3rd floor of Bird Library. (Note: Bound volumes of print journals / periodicals and less frequently used books are kept at The Facility, a high-density storage space at 1556 Jamesville Avenue. On-line forms can be used to request either scanning and email transmission of articles or next-business-day delivery of print materials for pick-up at a library on campus.)
To see an outline of the entire "D" Class and/or an outline of the "E" and "F" Classes, open the document(s) below. Then click on any Subclasses of interest for outlines of their classification schemes.
There are 3 ways to obtain journal articles:
o ON-LINE – accessing articles directly from full-text databases or from on-line journals to which the SU Libraries subscribe.
o IN PRINT (rare!) – for articles in UNBOUND issues of journals to which the Libraries have subscriptions for print only OR of journals for which SU Libraries' on-line access does not go forward enough in time.
o INTERLIBRARY LOAN (Interlibrary Loan request via the ILLiad system) – for articles in the SU Libraries' bound journal holdings (all now held in remote storage at The Facility) or for journals for which the SU Libraries have no coverage.
If the SU Library does not hold an item that you need for your research, we will try to borrow it for you from another library. Free interlibrary loan (ILL) service is provided through ILLiad, an automated system. Some publications (e.g. journal articles) may be e-mailed directly to you as PDF files. Books must be picked up at Bird Library.
If you haven't used ILLiad before, you will be prompted to fill out a registration form and you may want to take a look at information provided for "First Time Users."