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Dec 15, 2025
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HIST 5201 - Women in American History Since 1877
American women’s history since Reconstruction. Topics include the experiences of immigrant women in the United States, prostitution in the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era birth-control movement, achievement of the right to vote, women in the two world wars, women in the civil rights movement, the new feminist movement, the backlash against feminism, Roe v. Wade and the abortion debate.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be critical readers of primary and secondary sources.
- Students will have effective oral presentation skills.
- Students will master the formal styles of writing and argumentation that historians use in their work.
- Students will understand the roles of race, class, and ethnicity in women’s history.
- Students will use and properly cite primary and secondary sources in their written work.
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