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Apr 03, 2026
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HIST 474 - Women, Gender and Rights in US History
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3; Diversity
Diversity of women’s contributions, female gender roles and identities, and gendered cultures across U.S. history from pre-colonial period to the present and women’s status in the social, cultural, economic, and political life of the nation across ethnicity, race, and class.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Diversity
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area 3 requirements (lower division Area C requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs); and junior standing or above.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
1. Understand women’s experiences as historically evolving and varying by ethnicity, race, and class.
2. Analyze the evolution of diverse understandings of gender, experience of oppression, development of activism, and impact of/shaping of political, social, and economic change through the use of historical evidence;
3. Identify culture and historical context as integral to understandings of women’s status and forms of female culture, feminist expression and politics;
4. Apply knowledge of women’s history to understand women’s status across time through the lenses of race, ethnicity, class, and region.
GE-UD-3. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply principles, methodologies, values systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities.
- Analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human.
- Demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts or humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.
Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
- Describe the histories, experiences or views of one or more cultural groups.
- Analyze the overlap or intersection of social identities of oneself and/or other cultural groups (e.g., culture, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, and/or age).
- Examine the impact of their own identity on their experiences with and/or views of other cultural groups.
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