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2008-2009 Catalog of Courses 
    
2008-2009 Catalog of Courses [Archived Catalog]

HIST 322 - U.S. Women’s History/Literature (Multicultural)


3 hours
An inquiry into the experiences of U.S. Women from the mid-19th century to the end of the 20th century. Women and work, reform movements, wars, the West, suffrage, education, health care, professions and racism are topics of study using autobiographies, novels, films and monographs by leading merican women such as Rebecca Harding Davis, Frances Harper, Willa Cather, Katherine Porter, Tillie Olson, Zora Neale Hurston, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Gilman, Paule Marshall, Gertrude Stein, Toni Morrison, Amy Tan and Leslie Silko.(Meets American Character General Education Requirement.)
This course is cross listed with ENGL 322 and SOCI 322