History 52- Role of Women in U.S. History

Spring, 2010 Section# 0742, 11:10-12:35 MW, NEA-128

Instructor: Dr. Ellen Joiner, Office: NEA-181, Phone: 310-233-4582

e-mail: joinere@lahc.edu

Office Hours: 10-11 a.m. MW or by appointment

 

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Course Summary: This course will survey women’s roles throughout U.S. History.  Special emphasis will be placed on the construction of gender through work and family.  The influence of race, ethnicity, and status on women will also be explored as well as analyzing primary and secondary documentation. Understanding, organizing, and communicating this historical material is also a part of the course.

Course Objectives:

10.  Construct a historical project demonstrating use of primary and secondary sources, analysis of evidence, organization, and correct citations.

 

Required Books: Ellen Carol DuBois and Lynn Dumenil, Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents, 2^nd ed., Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2009.

This book is required and may be purchased from the Harbor College Bookstore or on-line. Students should also purchase a package of Scantron forms (#882) for examinations and a small 3-ring binder for journal-keeping.

If you need help paying for books and other college expenses, call the Financial Aid Office at 310-233-4320 in the Student Services/ Administration Building-AD125or contact http:www.lahc.edu/finaid

 

Course Requirements:  This course surveys women’s experience in the United States as it develops as a society and as a nation.  To grasp the historical continuity of this course regular and prompt attendance and note taking on class discussions and films are essential. At the beginning of class I will take attendance.  Students who are not present when the roll is taken will be counted absent.  More than two unexcused absences could result in a lowering of the grade or a student being dropped.  If it is necessary to miss a class, leave a message explaining the reason on my voice or e-mail.   Before coming to class, students will be expected to read assigned pages from Through Women’s Eyes and complete on-line study terms and questions.  These are available at the Assignment Icon at http://etudes-ng.fhda.edu/portal .  The terms and questions will clarify and focus the reading and learning of course material. These assignments will be graded. (10 pts. each=total 100 pts.) Students will also keep a journal that includes personal observations/analyses of current women’s issues-2-3 per week.  Journals will be collected and graded after each examination (30 pts./collection) Once during the semester each student will present one of their current issues to the class.  There will be three examinations and a final exam (matching, true-false, multiple choice) in the course (50 pts./exam = total 200 pts.).  Examinations must be taken when scheduled.  There are no make-up examinations.  Two essays (50 pts. each= total 100 pts.) are also required in the course.  Grades are determined on a percentage of the total points.  90% of the total= A, 80%=B, 70%=C, 60%= D.

Schedule:

Wk. 1	Feb. 8   Feb. 10	Course Introduction   Women of the New World	xxv-xxxiii   2-14
Wk. 2	Feb. 15     Feb. 17	President’s Day – no class   Culture Collisions in North America	14-34 c.1
Wk. 3	Feb. 22   Feb. 24	European settlements   Revolutionary Women	c. 2   122-135
Wk. 4	March 1   March 3	Revolutionary Legacies Exam 1 (c. 1-3)	136-152 c. 3
Wk. 5	March 8   March 10	Women’s Work   Westward Expansion and Antebellum Reform	195-219 c.4   252-279
Wk. 6	March 15     March 17	A Divided Nation-Women and the Civil War Reconstructing a Nation and Lives	279-286 c. 5     324-337
Wk. 7	March 22       March 24	Working and Leisured Women Exam 2 (c. 4-6)   Building a Nation	337-357 c. 6       390-403, 411-414
Spring Recess	March 29-April 4
Wk. 8	April 5       April 7	Immigration, Cities, and a Maternal Commonwealth   Faces of Progressive Reform	403-410, 414-415 c.7 Essay 1 due     454-462
Wk. 9	April 12     April 14	Maternalist Triumphs     Votes for Women!	462-469     469-489 c. 8
Wk. 10	April 19   April 21	“Jazz Babies”   The Great Depression & a Woman’s New Deal	520-535   535-545
Wk. 11	April 26     April 28	Women at War-WWII   Women in Post-war America	545-555 c. 9     588-609
Wk. 12	May 3     May 5	Civil Rights- Women on the Front Lines   Exam 3 (c.7-10)	610-627 c. 10
Wk. 13	May 10   May 12	Feminism Rising   Tools of Liberation	664-675   675-685
Wk. 14	May 17     May 19	The Impact of Feminism   Essay Presentations	685-700 c. 11 Essay 2 due
Wk. 15	May 24   May 26	Feminism Reconfigured Looking Back and Moving Forward	734-753   754-765 c. 12
Wk. 16	June 3, Thursday	10:30-12:30	Final Presentations & Exam