WOMEN AND GENDER IN MODERN EUROPE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2023 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the significance of gender as a category for historical analysis, and the analytical value of exploring women's agency as historical actors. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Discuss women's experience of major events in modern European history, explaining how additional factors like age, marital status, religion, and class differentiated that experience. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify the chief ways in which widely shared European norms and beliefs concerning gender and sexuality changed over the course of the modern period. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Describe how different political actors (French revolutionaries, Italian fascists, Soviet Communists, German feminists, etc.) promoted distinct visions of proper gender roles for men and women. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Analyze historical evidence in the form of primary source documents. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Analyze secondary sources, recognizing the authors' major arguments and the types of evidence they employ. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Construct your own written historical arguments by drawing critically on multiple sources. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the significance of gender as a category for historical analysis, and the analytical value of exploring women's agency as historical actors. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Discuss women's experience of major events in modern European history, explaining how additional factors like age, marital status, religion, and class differentiated that experience. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify the chief ways in which widely shared European norms and beliefs concerning gender and sexuality changed over the course of the modern period. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Describe how different political actors (French revolutionaries, Italian fascists, Soviet Communists, German feminists, etc.) promoted distinct visions of proper gender roles for men and women. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Analyze historical evidence in the form of primary source documents. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Analyze secondary sources, recognizing the authors' major arguments and the types of evidence they employ. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Construct your own written historical arguments by drawing critically on multiple sources. Audience: Undergraduate