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Fall 2020 | HIST 3615W Section 001: Women in European History: 1500 to the Present (33592)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
- Times and Locations:
- Enrollment Status:
Open (23 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- History of women in Western Europe from early modern period to present. Changes crucial to women's lives. Family/kinship structure, control over property, organization of work, religious ideas/practices, education, politics, beliefs/attitudes about female body.
- Class Notes:
- This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
- Class Description:
- This course is a survey of the history of women, gender relations, and sexuality in Europe from the Reformation era through the present. We will explore many interconnected aspects of women's lives during this period: the history of the family and gender relations as a context of women's everyday lives; changing patterns of women's work inside and outside the home; legal and political definitions of women and their relationships to men; social hierarchies and the relationship between gender and class status; religious, intellectual, and cultural dimensions of women's changing experiences; sexuality and reproduction We will read historical scholarship and many types of primary documents. Class time will be divided among lectures, class discussions, written work including quizzes and assignments, and small group work.
- Grading:
- 10% Final Exam
30% Reports/Papers
5% Special Projects
15% Attendance
30% Reflection Papers
10% In-class Presentations
- Class Format:
- 40% Lecture
10% Film/Video
20% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities
10% Student Presentations
- Workload:
- 75 Pages Reading Per Week
30 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
4 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
1 Special Project(s)
Other Workload: There will be frequent in-class writing exercises based on the required reading.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33592/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 18 July 2020
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