Lectures and readings in autobiographies and historical fiction. Same as HIS256. Our examination will also include selected works by African women. Same as AMS387. Third World women's studies.
Topics vary depending upon professor's specific field of study.
This course traces the changes in women's work in the home, in the family, and in the labor force in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing on the experience of working class women in the labor force, it explores the impact of urbanization and industrialization on women in different ethnic and racial communities, their experiences and conflicts with unions, and their contributions to labor struggles. Same as AMS435. This course introduces students to the basic concepts and practices of feminist pedagogy. It reviews the intellectual roots of feminist pedagogy and examines the ways in which feminist pedagogy has changed over the past twenty-five years.