Multicultural US Women's History

General

Prefix

HIST

Course Number

357

Course Level

Undergraduate

Department/Unit(s)

College/School

College of Liberal Arts

Description

History of women in the United States from pre-European contact to the present, emphasis on cross-cultural comparisons of women of color and minorities.

Credits

Min

3

Max

3

Repeatable

No

Goals and Diversity

MN Goal Course

No

Cultural Diversity

No

Learning Outcomes

Outcome

In a manner suitable for an upper division level course, identify, read, and analyze primary and secondary sources.

Outcome

In a manner suitable for an upper division level course, explore and explain feminist interpretations of women's history in the United States from a multicultural perspective.

Outcome

In a manner suitable for an upper division level course, compare life experiences of indigenous women, European women, African women, women of color, immigrant women, from various eras in U.S. history from pre-contact to the present.

Outcome

In a manner suitable for an upper division level course, reinterpret the history of the United States by weaving women of color into the web of the past.

Outcome

In a manner suitable for an upper division level course, apply historical methods to the study of an individual woman or group of women.

Outcome

In a manner suitable for an upper division level course, interpret the meaning of a past that incorporates women into it for the present and future of the United States.