HIST 2066 - Women in America Since 1890

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab 0
Internship hours per week 0
Course Description: This course explores the history of women in the United States from 1890 to the present, focusing both on the broad diversity within the category of women and their shared experiences. Major themes include intersectionality, medicine and reproductive rights, political activism, labor, migration, the family, and economic change.
MnTC Goals
Goal 5 Goal 7B

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1020 with a grade of C or higher OR ENGL 1021 with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content

The History of Women’s History
Reconstruction and Jim Crow
Suffrage Movements
Colonialism in the American West and Overseas
Immigration, Wage Labor, and the Industrial Age
The New Woman
Progressivism and Maternal Reforms
Birth Control, Abortion, and Medicine
The Great Migration, and the Jazz Age
The Depression and World War II
Gender and Family Ideals after World War II
Second-Wave Feminism
Women of Color and the Postwar Civil Rights Movements
The Rights Revolutions of the 1970s
The Conservative Backlash
Women in the Postindustrial Era
Sex, Gender, and Identity since 1990

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, students will be able to:

interpret the history of women in the United States by making connections between significant events, people, movements, and ideas in the past.
use historical thinking to make connections between the history of women in the United States and the present.
apply the standards of historical evidence and credibility while using diverse sources.
formulate a historical argument.
explain unequal power relations between racial groups, gender identities, and other social categories in the United States.
examine the challenges and contributions of communities experiencing intersecting systems of oppression.

Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies Goal 5
Goal 7B
Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6)

05. 01. Employ the methods and data that historians and social and behavioral scientists use to investigate the human condition.

05. 02. Examine social institutions and processes across a range of historical periods and cultures.

05. 03. Use and critique alternative explanatory systems or theories.

Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10)
07B.01. Understand historical and contemporary systemic structures of racism that sustain social, political, economic, and/or environmental inequities, particularly for Black, Indigenous lands and people, and other communities of color.

07B.02. Describe individual and institutional dynamics of unequal power relations among racial groups in the United States and how inequality is maintained by redefining race and other social identities and structures.

07B.03. Examine significant challenges of and contributions by people in the United States who have experienced racism and other forms of oppression such as sexism, classism, ableism, heterosexism, transphobia, antisemitism, and Islamophobia.

Practicum hours per week: 0

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