STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

 

 I. Identify the major trends, individuals, groups, and events involved with women’s lives, roles, and activism throughout American history.

 II.     Demonstrate comprehension of the historical patterns and themes of perceptions about women and women’s perceptions of themselves within American society.

 III.    Apply a new awareness of the woman’s role to elements traditionally studied in American history such as wars, elections, migrations, and economic changes.

 IV.     Analyze the importance of women in reform movements and why it is so marked.

 V.      Begin to design a new view of history as always inclusive of women.

 VI.     Evaluate sources as to their relative inclusion and interpretations of women’s roles.

  VII. Four general goals integrate history with workplace skills:

       A.      Acquire information from many sources

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

       C.      Understand the impact of time and space on perspective

       D.      Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence

 VIII.     Throughout the course, students should be introduced to course content, practice using course content, and demonstrate they can:

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

       B.        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

       C.        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

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

       E.         Analyze secondary sources and recognize differences in historical interpretation

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

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

       H.        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.      The Field of Women’s History

 II.     Native American Women and the Spanish Conquest

 III.    English Colonial Women

 IV.     Women of the Revolution and the New Republic

 V.      Women, Slavery, and Social Reform

 VI.     Women and the Civil War

 VII.    Women of the West

 VIII.   Suffragists and Progressives

 IX.     Women In and Between the World Wars

 X       Women’s Lib and Modern Women