HUM 2232 - Women in Western Civilization

1. Demonstrate understanding of different conceptions of what it is to be a ¿woman¿ ¿ distinguishing between identity, biology, and expression.
2. Articulate major events, persons, and ideas that have affected women’s roles and positions in Western society, such as Hammurabi’s Code, Justinian’s Corpus Juris Civilis, women in Christianity, Hildegard of Bingen, Christine de Pizan, witchcraft, Elizabeth I, Mary Wollstonecraft, Olympe de Gouges, Florence Nightingale, Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf, and Third and Fourth Wave Feminism.
3. Analyze contributions to the literary and creative arts by women in Western society such as Lavinia Fontana, Artemisia Gentileschi, Élizabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Mary Cassatt, Frida Kahlo, Native American artists, folk artists, Sappho, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Kate Chopin, Sylvia Plath, Lucille Clifton, and Margaret Atwood.
4. Analyze artistic depictions of women throughout Western civilization such as depictions of women in the Classical World, manuscript illuminations, Philippa in the Decameron, Joan of Arc, the Virgin Mary, Mona Lisa, Victorian women, suffragettes, and women in contemporary advertising.
5. Discuss how ideas, cultural developments, and principles developed by women have continued to influence the Western World and its interactions with the international community.
6. Recognize the different social, historical, cultural, and economic contributions made by women of different racial and class identities and the impact of stereotypes on them.
7. Provide critical responses to primary written and artistic sources.
8. Interpret works in the arts and humanities within a historical and social context.
9. Formulate personal responses, both written and oral, to texts and materials presented.
10. Use a form of creative expression to demonstrate a knowledge of women in Western civilization and the course content.
11. Recognize the inclusionary and exclusionary distinctions of our Western cultural heritage based on gender, class, or other conditions.

1. Gender in a historical and cultural context
2. Scope and variety of women’s political, economic, and social contributions to Western society
3. Scope and variety of women’s contributions to Western society in the areas of the arts and humanities
4. Influence of the past on contemporary events and problems related to gender