Women, Gender, and Freedom in U.S. History

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

MAC Competency: Civics and Community

• Critically analyze claims, arguments, artifacts, or information.

• Construct coherent, evidence-based arguments.

• Evaluate key concepts, principles, arguments, and contests in founding documents of the American Republic, including the United States Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and a representative selection of the Federalist Papers.

• Evaluate key milestones in progress and challenges in the effort to form a more perfect Union, including the arguments and contexts surrounding the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Letter from Birmingham Jail, as well as other texts that reflect the breadth of American experiences.

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Specific

• Explain how gender is produced within social institutions and how these institutions affect individual lives.  (WGS SLO 1)

• To discuss histories of feminism as a social movement and feminist theories of social transformation (WGS SLO 2)

• To analyze scholarship and a variety of media in order to create original arguments in writing (WGS SLO 8)

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Group Project	See chart below
Reading Reflections	See chart below
Primary Document Analysis	See chart below
Salon Discussion participation	See chart below
In-class projects and activities	See chart below

To earn a grade, you need to complete all the requirements for that grade. Plus and minus grades will be determined based on how close you are to the next higher or lower grade.

Letter Grade	What needs to be completed
A	High Pass: Group Project Submit 4, High Pass on 1 and Pass on 2: Reading Reflections High Pass: Primary Document Analysis No more than 1 incomplete Salon No more 4 incomplete: In-class projects and activities
B	Pass: Group Project Pass on 3: Reading Reflections Pass: Primary Document Analysis No more than 2 incomplete Salons No more 5 incomplete: In-class projects and activities
C	Pass: Group Project Pass on 2: Reading Reflections Pass: Primary Document Analysis No more than 3 incomplete Salons No more 6 incomplete: In-class projects and activities
D	Pass: Group Project Pass on 1: Reading Reflections No more than 4 incomplete Salons No more 7 incomplete: In-class projects and activities
F	Complete less than required to earn a D.

Attendance/Participation:

Attendance and participation are expected. Students can have four absences with no effect to their grade.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

No course materials are required.