Spring 2015
Instructor: Dr. Ellen Joiner, On-campus Office: NEA-181, Phone: 310-233-4582
On campus 0ffice hours- 9:30-11 T/Th or by appointment.
Online Office Hours: Etudes Chat or via Private Messenger e-mail:
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Course Summary: This course will survey women’s roles throughout U.S. History. Special emphasis will be placed on the construction of gender through work and family. The influence of race, ethnicity, and status on women will also be explored as well as analyzing primary documentation.
Student Learning Outcomes:
1. Identify the dynamic of historical continuity and change within U.S. Women's History.
2. Define gender and clarify its interaction with racial, ethnic, and status differences throughout U.S. Women’s History.
3. Identify and critically analyze individuals and movements (temperance, labor, birth control, suffrage) that have contributed to changing women’s status in U.S. History.
4. Explain the role of American institutions (law, religion, politics, slavery) in defining women’s role in American society.
5. Differentiate between primary and secondary sources in U.S. Women’s History and correctly use evidence to create support and argument and conclusion in historical writing.
Required Materials:
1) Access to a Computer-Because this class is completely online you must have a personal computer and reliable online access. Do not plan to use your employer’s computer, a friend’s, or your hand-held device for this course. The class requires writing (three 4-page essays) and has specific dates when assignments must be submitted. You must have access to your own computer in order to put in the time that is required. If your computer breaks during the course, the LAHC Library has computers that you may use but this requires that you come to campus.
2) Textbook- The textbook for the class is Ellen Carol DuBois and Lynn Dumenil, Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents, 3rd ed, Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin’s.
This textbook is required and may be purchased from the Harbor College Bookstore or online. If you need help paying for books and other college expenses, contact the Financial Aid Office at http:www.lahc.edu/finaid
Course Requirements: This course surveys women’s experience in the United States as it develops as a nation and as a society. History 52 is completely online. On the first day of class you will be able to log onto the class which is found at http://myetudes.org After logging on you will immediately click the Assignments, Tests, and Surveys icon and follow the instructions given there. During the first week of class several face-to-face orientation sessions for Etudes will be offered in the computer lab (NEA-126) at Harbor College and through the Learning Resources Center. The dates and times of these sessions will be posted at the Etudes Announcements page. There will be a series of assignments the first week to orient you to the class. These assignments must be completed within the first week otherwise you will be excluded.
The class is organized on a weekly basis with assignments opened each Monday morning at 8 a.m. and closed at 11 p.m. the following Sunday night. Each week’s assignment will be found at the Assignments, Tests, and Surveys section. A weekly assignment will typically include:
1) Reading assigned pages in the text (Through Women’s Eyes). Chapter assignments do not include the Documents or Visual Source materials (green pages) unless assigned. Be sure to carefully follow the syllabus for each week’s reading assignment.
2) To help you understand and learn the reading material you will use the Modules section that lists key terms and individuals from each chapter. You are not required to submit writing on the Modules. Using these important terms from each chapter as you read it will help you review the material and prepare for exams.
3) You will also be listening to my explanation of the material in a 30-40 minute lecture at ellenjoiner.com
4) Each week you will also be taking a practice test which is required and counts toward your final grade. The practice tests are at Assignments, Tests, and Surveys. The practice tests are for practice so you may re-take the tests to improve your score. The score on the final time that you take the practice test will be the score that goes into the Etudes Gradebook. Each practice test must be completed by the end of each week’s assignment. Practice tests may not be made up.
5) Each week I will also post a question on the Discussion Board that we will be discussing throughout the week. You are required to participate in 10 discussions that I will initiate (10 pts./discussion) throughout the semester. Participation means that you will respond to my question and interact with at least two other students’ posts. You must participate in the assigned discussion during the week it is assigned. There are no make-ups on the Discussion Board. I monitor the discussions throughout the week then record the points after the discussion has closed. I will keep a separate record of the discussion participation and add those points at the end of the semester. All students must participate in the first four weeks of discussion or they will be excluded from the class. After the first four weeks you have some flexibility in terms of when you will complete the other six postings before the end of the class.
6) Three 4-page essays (40 pts. each) that focus on primary source materials are required. Written assignments will be submitted to turnitin.com where the work can be checked for grammar mistakes and plagiarism. According to LACCD and Harbor College policy, copying another person’s work or ideas without giving them credit is illegal and will not be accepted. If you have questions about plagiarism, please see plagiarism or ask me any question you may have. Further instructions for using turnitin.com will be provided when the first essay is submitted. Essay assignments will be assigned at least two weeks in advance to give you time to work on them.
7) Three examinations (true-false, multiple choice-40 pts. each) and a final (50 pts.) are also part of the course. The examinations will be taken online at the Etudes site. The due dates for the exams and essays are listed in the schedule below.
More specific instructions for all of the assignments will be given each week so it is very important that you carefully read and follow each week’s instructions at Assignments, Tests, and Surveys.
8) 15 extra credit points are also available in the class. Students may watch 3 films (5 pts. each) that are listed on the class schedule at ellenjoiner.com and submit a short film summary (.rtf file at the top of the schedule) to me at the Etudes Private Messenger. All extra credit submissions must be submitted in the week they are assigned.
15 pts. extra credit is also available for participation in a Service Learning Civic Project. Details on Service Learning are explained at Modules- Service Learning. You must notify Lori Minor, Service Learning Director, during the first week of class if you are interested in participating it the Service Learning project. Credit for participation in both activities is not allowed. Students must select one or the other. No extra credit will be given if assigned class work has not been completed.
The course requirements for online History 52 are not that different from the face-to-face version. This is not a self-directed class. You will have specific assignments each week that will need to be finished by the Sunday (11 p.m.) deadline. After the deadline, the assignment will close and you will not be able to access it. The primary difference between online and face-to-face is that you are not required to physically come to a class and within the week time frame y decide when you will complete the assigned work. I also hold a weekly “office hour” on Wednesday evenings at 8 p.m. when I will be in the Chat Room to directly answer questions that you may have. If you have other questions contact me through Private Messenger and I will get back to you as soon as possible. Don’t hesitate to also post questions in the Chat Room or at Questions? on the Etudes site. Other students in the class are very willing to help you.
Grades for History 52 are determined on a percentage of the total points. The total points for the practice tests, exams, and essays will be available to you at the Etudes grade book. I will keep a separate record of the discussion participation plus any extra credit that you may complete and add those points at the end of the semester. At the end of the semester I will tally your total points and determine your grade based on the following percentages. 90% of the total= A, 80%=B, 70%=C, 60%= D. If at any point throughout the semester you would like to know your grade just ask me via Private Messenger. Grades are private information so I won’t discuss your grade in an open forum of the Discussion Board or Chat Room.
Semester Schedule:
Wk. 1 / Feb. 9-15 / Course Introduction / Survey Table of Contents & pp. xxvii-xxxv
Wk. 2 / Feb. 16-22 / Women of the New World / c. 1
Wk. 3 / Feb. 23-March1 / European Settlement in the New World / c.2 + Documents: Letters & Newspaper Advertisements (92-95)
Review General Essay Instructions & Essay Example; Listen to “Analyzing a Primary Source” at ellenjoiner.com
Wk. 4 / March 2-8 / Women in the Revolutionary Era / c. 3+ Documents: Education and Republican Motherhood ( 173-179)
Wk. 5 / March 9-15 / Exam 1 (c.1-3)
Women’s Work / c. 4 + Visual Sources: Godey’s Lady’s Book (233-238)
Wk. 6 / March 16-22 / National Expansion and Reform Activism / p. 252-277
Essay 1 due-See Modules
Wk. 7 / March 23-29 / The Civil War and Reconstruction / c.5 + p. 320-333
Wk. 8 / March 30-April 5 / Wage Labor and Women of Leisure / c.6
April 6-12 / Spring Recess
Wk. 9 / April 13-19 / Exam 2 (c. 4-6)
Immigration, Cities, & a Maternal Commonwealth / c.7
Wk. 10 / April 20-26 / Faces of Progressive Reform / c. 8 + Parades, Picketing, and Power: Women in Public Space (493-500)
Wk. 11 / April 27-May 3 / The Great Depression and A Women’s New Deal / p. 522-545
Wk. 12 / May 4-10 / Women at War- World War II / c. 9
Essay 2 due-See Modules
Wk. 13 / May 11-17 / Women in Post-war
America / c.10 + Women in the Civil Rights Movement ( 656-663)
Wk. 14 / May 18-24 / Exam 3 (c. 7-10)
The Second Wave / c.11
Wk. 15 / May 25-31 / Feminism Reconfigured / c. 12 + Documents: Clinton, Palin, Obama (779-787)
Essay 3 due-See Modules
Wk. 16 / June 1-5 / Exam 4 (c. 11-12)
The final must be completed by Friday (June 5) at 11 p.m. not Sunday. / Completion of History 52
Chronology: In order to address SLO#2 which deals with historical chronology we will be learning the following dates throughout the class. On each of your practice tests and exams you will have multiple choice questions that ask you to identify which of these events came first and which came last. On the final exam there will be five questions that review over all of the dates again asking you identify “which comes first” and “which comes last”
History 52- Chronology Assessment
1620-21 “tobacco brides” arrive in Jamestown
1692 Salem witchcraft hysteria
1765 Women begin to produce homespun
1776 Declaration of Independence
1788 U.S. Constitution adopted
1823 First textile mill opens - Lowell, Massachusetts
1848 Seneca Falls women’s rights convention / Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1860-65 American Civil War
1874 Woman’s Christian Temperance Union formed
1889 Hull House formed
1908 Supreme Court ruling Muller v. Oregon
1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
1920 Nineteenth Amendment (woman’s suffrage) ratified
1933 Initiation of New Deal
1942 Women recruited in World War II industries
1955 Rosa Parks arrest sparks Montgomery Bus Boycott
1960 Formation of Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
/ Birth Control Pill introduced
1972 Title IX of Education Amendments Act bans sex discrimination in federally funded education
1973 Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade
1981 Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings
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