WMS 1650 - Women in U.S. History

Credits: 3 (3 + 0)

Prerequisite(s): Minimum performance standard scores on the reading and writing preassessment placement tests

Description: This course emphasizes women’s changing roles in American history from pre-Columbian times to the present. The course covers the nature of women’s work and their participation in the family, church, and reform movements in the colonial and Republican periods, and the 19th and 20th centuries. Students study the emergence of the modern woman in the 20th century, as well as the reemergence of the women’s movement. The course stresses both the changes and the continuities over the last 300 years.

Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: HIS, HON, or WMS.

General Studies: Historical

Guaranteed Transfer: GT-HI1

Cross Listed Course(s): HIS 1650, HON 1650