HIS 3650U.S. Women's History

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Prerequisites: ENG 1009 or ENG 1010 or equivalent with a grade of D or better and any course with HIS prefix or that is crosslisted with HIS prefix or Permission of Instructor Crosslisting: HIS 3650 This course emphasizes women's changing roles in American history from preColumbian times to the present. The course covers the nature of women's work and women's participation in the family, church, and reform movements in the colonial and Republican periods and the 19th and 20th centuries. Students study the emergence of the modern woman in the 20th-century, as well as the re-emergence of the women's movement. The course stresses both the changes and the continuities over the last 300 years. Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: HIS or GWS..