STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

 

 1.   Demonstrate knowledge of the earliest patterns of Mediterranean river valley civilizations .

 2.   Analyze the roles and status of women within traditional Western, Confucian Chinese, and Islamic societies .

 3.   Comprehend the major effects of industrialization and imperialism on 19th-century women.

 4.   Evaluate the pattern and dynamics of continuing change in the lives, status, and roles of late-20th-century Western women .

 5.   Analyze the role of women within Communist China and Soviet and post-Soviet Russia .

 6.   Analyze the role of women within the 20th-century Islamic Middle East and Africa .

 7.   Synthesize the patterns of women’s history into conceptual frameworks that historians use.

 8.   Evaluate historical sources and interpretations about women in world history .

 10.  Acquire information from many sources .

 11.  Break complex and multiple sources of information down into parts to create clearer understanding .

 12.  Understand the impact of time and space on perspective .

 13.  Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence .

 14.  Describe how peoples, groups, cultures, and institutions covered in this course change over time

 15.  Understand the events covered in the course in historical context and recognize how social, cultural, gender, race, religion, nationality and other identities affect historical perspective

 16.  Communicate orally and in writing about the subject of the course and select and apply contemporary forms of technology to solve problems and compile information

 17.  Use different resources for historical research, including libraries, databases, bibliographies and archives

 18.  Analyze secondary sources and recognize differences in historical interpretation

 19.  Identify types of primary sources, the point of view and purpose of their author or creator

 20.  Create substantive writing samples which employ critical analysis of primary and secondary sources, and document those sources correctly

 21.  Construct knowledge in the discipline and synthesize historical narratives and timelines from primary and secondary sources, maps, and/or artifacts and critically analyze, interpret and evaluate many different points of view to construct historical arguments.

 TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 

 I.      Women in World History as a Field of Study

 II.     Before Patriarchy (before 800 BCE)

 III.    Emerging Patriarchy (800 BCE-1500 CE)

 IV.     Women in Early Modern Western, Chinese, and Islamic Societies

 V.      Era of Change (1500-1800)

 VI.     Colonization and Empire (1500-1800)

 VII.    Organized Women (1850-1970)

 VIII.   Women’s Changing Status and Roles in the Twentieth Century

 IX.     Women’s Liberation (1970-present)

 X       Where Do Women Go from Here?