HIST 267 - S/U/Women and U.S. Social Movements

2019-2020 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences, American History

This course will explore the role of women in selected social movements with particular attention to how women’s involvements often leads to subsequent movements for women’s rights. Possible areas of emphasis include the connections between the 19th century abolitionist movement and the subsequent women’s rights/woman suffrage movement or the connections between the modern Civil Rights Movement and the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Offered: Not on a regular basis