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- Effective Term:
- Summer 2014 through Summer 2015
- Course Number:
- HST 204
- Course Title:
- History of Women in the U.S.: Pre-colonial to 1877
- Credit Hours:
- 4
- Lecture Hours:
- 40
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Examines the lives of women in terms of family relations, religion, culture, sexuality and reproduction, and work roles, as well as educational opportunities and social reform activities. Explores diversity in terms of class, race, ethnicity, legal status, and region. History courses are non-sequential and may be taken in any term and in any order. Audit available.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon successful completion students will be able to:
- Articulate an understanding of the key events in US history from pre?European settlement to 1877 and use critical thinking evaluate how they particularly impact women.
- Appreciate the variety of cultural influences on North American women including ethnicity, race, class, ideology, spirituality, legal status, geographical region and the culturally based assumptions that have influenced the perception and behavior regarding women in the past
- Evaluate the contributions that various groups of women have made to the American culture.
- Communicate effectively using historical analysis.
- Connect the past with the present to enhance understanding of modern gender roles and to promote civic and global engagement
Social Inquiry and Analysis
Students completing an associate degree at Portland Community College will be able to apply methods of inquiry and analysis to examine social contexts and the diversity of human thought and experience.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
- Analyze and evaluate primary and secondary sources
- Evaluate different interpretations of past events and construct your own interpretation
- Think critically about the relationships between past and present events and issues
- Compare and contrast the experience of diverse groups in American society
- Demonstrate college-level communications skills: listening, speaking, and writing
- Use a variety of assessment methods such as written work (research papers, book critiques, journals), oral presentations, small and large group discussions
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Competencies and Skills
- Think critically
- Analyze and evaluate the position of women in American society
- Analyze, evaluate, and connect issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and class as they apply to women
- Analyze, interpret, and evaluate written, artistic, or other evidence in its historical context
- Recognize and identify historical roots and parallels to current issues
- Listen to and appreciate the experience of students from a variety of backgrounds
- Assess the contributions and experiences of various groups in American society
- Communicate effectively orally and in writing an understanding of a variety of historical topics, the historical process,
- Evaluate how concepts or values change over time
Course Content
Themes, Concepts, and Issues
- Contrasting gender-based roles in a variety of cultures (American Indian, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-American)
- Relationships between indigenous peoples and Euro-American women
- Patriarchal family system
- Matrilineal family system
- Sexuality and reproduction
- Gender-based work roles
- Religion (Shakers, Salem with trials)
- Variations in women’s lives based upon race, class, ethnicity, region, religion, ideology
- Racism, nativism, ethnocentrism
- Expanding educational opportunities
- Technological developments
- Influence of individual rights philosophy on women
- Impact of Revolutionary War and developing new republic on women
- Political and economic changes on family relationships and work roles
- African Diaspora
- Social, religious, and political movements