Undergraduate Courses in Women's and Gender History
The following courses are regularly offered courses for undergraduate students, who are interested in women's and gender history.
| Course Title | Number | Course Description | Instructor |
| WOMEN’S VOICES: EUROPEAN HISTORY in FEMALE MEMORY | HIST 089-001 |
The course examines nineteenth and twentieth century European history through the lens of women’s autobiographical writings. It explores women’s voices from different generational, social and national backgrounds and asks what formed their memories. | Hagemann |
| AFRICA IN THE 20TH CENTURY:TRANSFORMATIONS IN CULTURE AND POWER | HIST 130 |
Using fiction, film, primary sources, and scholarly work, this course provides an overview of the major issues in 20th-century African history. Topics include colonialism and neo-colonialism, social change, gender, and ethnicity. | Lee or Lindsay |
| WOMEN IN EUROPE BEFORE 1750 | HIST/WMST 258 |
The female experience in pre-industrial Europe (from Ancient Greece to the Industrial Revolution). | NN |
| WOMEN AND GENDER IN EUROPE SINCE 1750 | HIST/WMST 259 |
This course examines and compares women's and men’s lives and the history of women’s struggle for emancipation in modern Europe, roughly from the era of the late Enlightenment an the French Revolution to the period after World War II. | Hagemann |
| MILITARY, WAR AND GENDER IN MOVIES | HIST 263 |
The course examines the interrelations between changes in warfare, the military system, and the gender order in Europe from medieval to modern time, and its reflection in international movies. | Hagemann |
| WOMEN IN RUSSIAN AND SOVIET HISTORY, 1860-PRESENT | HIST/WMST 264 |
This course traces the development of the woman question in tsarist Russia, how the Soviet regime affected women's lives, and how women's experiences compare to the Communist Party's claim of equality. | McReynolds |
| WOMEN AND GENDER IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY | HIST/WMST 280 |
Examines the experiences of women and gender relations in Latin American societies from pre-Columbian times to the present, providing a new perspective on the region's historical development. | Burns |
| AMERICAN SEXUALITIES | HIST 358 |
An introduction to the history of sexuality in North America from the colonial period to the Sexual Revolution, this course critically examines such issues as regulation, reproduction, reform, and identity. | Sweet |
| WOMEN IN AMERICAN HISTORY | HIST/WMST 362 |
Women's roles and contributions from the colonial period to the present. Themes include the family and sexuality, the impact of industrialization, reform movements, and difference of race, class, and region. | Hall |
| HISTORY OF GENDER IN AMERICA | HIST/WMST 375 |
This course will explore how Americans from 1600 to the present have defined what is masculine and what is feminine and how they have constructed their identities around those definitions. | Various instructors |
| GENDERING MODERN GERMAN HISTORY, 19-20 CENTURY | HIST 391 |
This undergraduate research seminar studies the gendered history of 19th- and 20th-centuries Germany, in particular the Wilhelmine Empire, the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. The central focus is on questions of continuity, change, and rupture within the gender order and the gender relations | Hagemann |
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