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- Effective Term:
- Fall 2017 through Summer 2020
- Course Number:
- HST 205
- Course Title:
- History of Women in the U.S.: 1877 to Present
- Credit Hours:
- 4
- Lecture Hours:
- 40
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Examines women's work in the maturing industrial economy, women's reform activities, and changing family and social relationships. Explores class, ethnic, racial, and regional diversity. 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 should be able to:
- Articulate and interpret an understanding of key historical facts and events in U.S. History from 1877 to the present, and their particular impact on women.
- Identify the influence of culturally based practices, values, and beliefs to analyze how historically defined meanings of difference affect human behavior.
- Identify and investigate historical theses, evaluate information and its sources, and use appropriate reasoning to construct evidence-based arguments on historical issues.
- Construct a well organized historical argument using effective, appropriate, and accurate language.
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
Assess by using any combination of the following:
- Exams
- Essays
- Oral Presentations
- Research projects
- Book critiques
- Journals
- Class participation and discussion in small and large groups
- Other creative assignments
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Competencies and Skills:
- 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
- Compare and contrast the experience of diverse groups in American society
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Demonstrate college-level communications skills with an emphasis on writing (and may include listening and speaking)
Themes, Concepts, and Issues:
- Victorian family system
- Sexuality and reproduction
- Gender-based work roles
- Variations in women’s lives based upon race, class, ethnicity, region, religion, ideology
- Westward expansion and frontier experiences
- Expanding educational opportunities
- Technological developments
- Emerging advertising and consumer culture
- Religion
- Significance of Industrialization and urbanization on family and work
- Expanding opportunities in professions and the paid labor force
- Abolition, slavery, and the lingering effects
- Civil War and Reconstruction
- Social, economic, political, and legal reform movements
- Women’s rights and women’s suffrage movement
- Racism, nativism, ethnocentrism