HIST 228 - Women in European History: 1750-Present "Weaving Whole Cloth"This course explores the fabric of women's history from The Enlightenment to the "New Europe," private to political, isolated to universal. It qualifies for both history and women's studies requirements.
Also listed as WMST-228
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENGL-111 (English Compostion) or permission of the instructor.
Fees: This course has fees totaling $30.00.
Instructor: Barbara Young Whorton
Phone: 410-772-4990, then dial: 6004
Overall Course Objectives | Major Course Topics | Course Format | Orientation | Course Requirements | Materials | Exams
Overall Course Objectives As an online cohort of learners, we will read and discuss content ideas using friendly confersaton to reduce the distance not only between history then to now, between each other, you and me. The journey will be rigouous, revealing, and rewarding. Are you ready?
Once you have completed this course you will be able to:
Read for main ideas or overviews
Define vocabulary in historical context
Write timely responses about talking points
Demonstrate interest and support in peer interchanges
Examine web links for related topics and highlights
Respect and respond to views contrary to your own
Script-write using voices in dialogue
Check yourself for understanding in short tests
Use quotes and details in support of a generalization
Write with convincing proof from your studies
Assess writing samples using rubrics
Utilize web sources for authentic & revealing scholarship
Show connections between earlier chapter ideas to those of today’s world community.
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Orientation This course has a required face-to-face orientation.
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- Review the "What you should know before you Register" section of the Distance Learning Homepage.
- Weekly reading and writing asignments.
- Papers and research project emailed as word attachments in discussion boxes.
- One powerpoint short presentation about your research project.
Recommended Texts
- Bridenthal, Stuard, Wiesner, eds. Becoming Visible: Women in European History, Third Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. Available in HCC Bookstore online.
Mitchell, Helen and Mitchell, Joseph, Taking Sides, vol. 2, second edition. McGraw Hill, 2006.
Buy your textbooks from our online Bookstore, or visit our Bookstore. (Maps)
Technical Requirements and Plug-Ins: The following plug-ins are required for this course:
- Internet Explorer or
- Netscape
- Real Player
- Word Viewer, if you don’t have the full version of Microsoft Word
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Exams For purposes of verification and assessing learning outcomes, this course has three exams at the HCC Test Center for students in the local region or at a regional institution for remote students.
