Women's & Gender Studies (WGS) |
315 Hendricks, 541-346-5529
College of Arts and Sciences
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Course Data
| WGS 303 Wom & Gender Amer Hist >2 >IP |
4.00 cr. |
| Focuses on women and gender in America, highlighting how diverse women have experienced gender roles and sexism since the 17th century. |
| Grading Options: |
Optional; see degree guide or catalog for degree requirements
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| Instructor: |
Saavedra Y  |
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| Office Hours: |
1400 - 1545 MW |
and by appointment; |
| Course Materials |
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CRN |
Avail |
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Time |
Day |
Location |
Instructor |
Notes |
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35621 |
2 |
40 |
1400-1520 |
mw |
140 ALL |
Saavedra Y |
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Final Exam: |
1445-1645 |
t 6/13 |
140 ALL |
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Academic Deadlines
| Deadline |
Last day to: |
| April 2: |
Process a complete drop (100% refund, no W recorded) |
| April 8: |
Drop this course (100% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded) |
| April 8: |
Process a complete drop (90% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded) |
| April 9: |
Process a complete withdrawal (90% refund, W recorded) |
| April 9: |
Withdraw from this course (100% refund, W recorded) |
| April 10: |
Add this course |
| April 10: |
Last day to change to or from audit |
| April 16: |
Process a complete withdrawal (75% refund, W recorded) |
| April 16: |
Withdraw from this course (75% refund, W recorded) |
| April 23: |
Process a complete withdrawal (50% refund, W recorded) |
| April 23: |
Withdraw from this course (50% refund, W recorded) |
| April 30: |
Process a complete withdrawal (25% refund, W recorded) |
| April 30: |
Withdraw from this course (25% refund, W recorded) |
| May 21: |
Withdraw from this course (0% refund, W recorded) |
| May 21: |
Change grading option for this course |
 | You can't drop your last class using the "Add/Drop" menu in DuckWeb. Go to the “Completely Withdraw from Term/University” link to begin the complete withdrawal process. If you need assistance with a complete drop or a complete withdrawal, please contact the Office of Academic Advising, 101 Oregon Hall, 541-346-3211 (8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday). If you are attempting to completely withdraw after business hours, and have difficulty, please contact the Office of Academic Advising the next business day. |
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Expanded Course Description
| This upper division class will focus on women and gender in America from the colonial period to the present. Researching women's history and including gender as a historical construct not only helps us preserve the distinctive contributions of women to American history but also forces us to rethink historical categories of class, race, region, and periodization. The course will highlight how prescriptions of womanhood have varied over time and how diversity among women has affected experiences with gender roles and sexism.
This course satisfies the criteria for group status in the social sciences because in it students will come to “think like historians.” They will be able to read and evaluate primary sources from the various periods under study as well as analyze secondary material written by contemporary scholars. The subject matter will be quite broad, covering a representative cross-section of women’s experiences from the early American period to the present day. Using gender as our primary mode of analysis, we will better understand challenges we face today by examining women’s choices and constraints in the past.
We will learn about the specific, historical dimensions of gendered society in America through focusing on topics such as Witch-hunting; Slavery; Work and Class; Pregnancy, Birth, and Abortion; Immigration; Sexuality; Radicalism and Politics; Marriage and Motherhood; and Feminisms as we build upon our chronology from the seventeenth century to the present. The units will be presented in roughly chronological order, though we will also work backwards in time; for example the unit on Marriage and Motherhood will focus on the 1950s, but will include readings from earlier periods so that we can make comparisons and see how ideas about women and gender have changed over the years. Similarly, the unit on pregnancy and birth will focus on the decline of midwifery in the nineteenth century, but will also look ahead to include the renaissance in natural childbirth in the 1970s.
The course will emphasize the diversity and change among the various social classes and races that comprise U.S. women’s history, as well as explore representative voices from varying social and cultural standpoints. Therefore, it will satisfy the University’s multicultural requirement (Category B, Identity, Pluralism, and Tolerance).
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