Topics explored will include women's domestic and wage work, marital patterns, the concept of sisterhood, the institutions of marriage and the family, legal rights, education, social and political movements. Emphasis on social, political, religious, and economic continuity and change between classical Graeco-Roman civilization and the Germanic and Byzantine successor states. I to the present day, with particular emphasis on the rise of Hitler and the Third Reich, the Cold War, and European Union. The story of the formation of the Spanish, French, and British colonies in North America. Emphasis is on development in southern North America, the Gulf Coast, the Caribbean, and the West Coast.
Special attention is also devoted to the contemporary problems of modern Latin America.
The First World War. The study of the progress of America from 1940, focusing on the impact of World War Ii, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War on American society and on understanding various movements of social change, such as civil rights, the women's movement, and student protests. Focusing on Eleanor of Aquitaine and other twelfth-century women, the course provides a more comprehensive and colorful portrait of the medieval period than the usual one. Readings in original historical and literary sources which have been translated into English. Same as EN 375.