20803230Women in History
Course Information
Description
Introduces students to women's history, specifically the various roles played by and assigned to women in western societies and focusing on the question of how and why women's lives have changed during the past thirty centuries. Students will examine women's experiences and their images in the past by analyzing the lives of selected notable women as well as broad categories of women, e.g. prostitutes, peasant wives, noblewomen, feminists. The traditional historical periods covered include the Ancient (Greece, Rome), the Medieval (Europe) and the Modern (Europe and the U.S. since 1500).
Total Credits
3
Course Competencies
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Explore the nature of women's historyAssessment StrategiesEssayCriteriaexamine the origins and purposes of women's historyanalyze the sources, methods, and terminology of women's historyexplore the various philosophies and approaches used in women's history
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Analyze women in ancient societies in the WestAssessment StrategiesEssayCriteriaexamine how the organization of society can influence the status of women using warrior societies in the ancient worldidentify roles played by and assigned to women in ancient Greececompare various perceptions of women in Greek society in art, literature, and philosophyexamine the roles played by and assigned to women in Roman society and how they change over timeidentify sources of change in women's lives or status throughout the ancient societiesgenerate conclusions about the nature of marriage in Greece and Romeevaluate male perceptions of women in Greek and Roman society
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Analyze women in early ChristianityAssessment StrategiesEssayCriteriaexplore what the early Christian perceptions are about womenexamine what roles women played in the development of Christianityassess the situation of women in ancient societydraw conclusions about the traditions regarding women in ancient societies
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Analyze women in medieval European societyAssessment StrategiesEssayCriteriaexplore the situation of women in early to high medieval society in order to identify the changes and the sources of change in women's roles and statusexamine women's roles in the three major orders of medieval society: warrior class, peasant class, and the Christian churchgenerate conclusions about the nature of marriage in medieval Europe and especially the impact of Christianity on medieval marriageexamine economic views affecting women in the middle agesexplore specific medieval women as examples of the three orders: Eleanor of Aquitaine, Hildegarde of Bingen, and Christine di Pisan
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Analyze women in the early modern periodAssessment StrategiesEssayCriteriacompare the different experiences between men and women during the Renaissanceevaluate the impact of the concept of courtly loveexamine the changes in ideas in education for womenexamine the changes in women's roles in the early modern period: what were they and what caused them (e.g., economic changes, Protestant Reformation, cultural philosophies about men and women)examine the gender dimension in the witch hunt craze
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Analyze the women question in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesAssessment StrategiesEssayCriteriadetermine how women's roles are redefined in this periodcompare the theories about women's roles in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft and Jean Jacques Rousseaudetermine connections between women's roles and social class in the nineteenth centuryanalyze major changes in women's lives and how they happened in the nineteenth centuryexamine the impact of industrialization on womenexamine the first wave of feminismexamine how women worked to achieve changes in rights and legal status, e.g., the suffrage movement
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Analyze how women's roles are defined in the twentieth centuryAssessment StrategiesEssayCriteriadetermine the impact of war and revolutions on women's lives in the early twentieth centuryidentify lifestyle changes for womenassess the impact of new technologies on women's livessummarize the condition of women in the last half of the twentieth centuryevaluate the second wave of feminismexamine the relationship between women and the state in the late twentieth century
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Write about historical topicsAssessment StrategiesEssay and/or Research PaperCriteriaemploy primary and secondary sourcescomply with the conventions of standard written Englishpresent information which directly addresses historical issuesorganize thoughts logically and coherently
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Analyze historical materialsAssessment StrategiesEssay and/or Research PaperCriteriabreak apart a specific time period or concept into economic, social, political, and cultural elementsdraw conclusionsmake inferencesconnect information to ideasemploy techniques of visual and auditory analysis
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Use elements of researchAssessment StrategiesWritten ProductCriteriafind appropriate resourcesincorporate research into written work appropriatelycompile a bibliographysupport a thesis with sufficient evidencedocument sources using standard academic documentation