HONR 203B - 01H

Regular Academic Session

3469

Undergraduate

3 units

Graded Alpha

Prerequisite: Completion of HONR 101, HONR D101, HONR 102, and HONR D102. Restricted to students in the Honors Program.

This course examines the question, "Who are we in the United States of America?" Students approach this question using multiple texts and visual materials that address social, political, and cultural aspects of the U.S. experience. The course illustrates the main contours of American society and the American story and explores the ways in which our self-image as a people reflects and contradicts reality.

Outcomes: Students will understand the role of key social processes such as the frontier experience, industrialization, immigration, religious pluralism, and the struggle for equality in the development of a distinctive American story; They will learn to use available public sources to conduct research on aspects of the American experience.

Prerequisite HONR 101, HONR D101, HONR 102, HONR D102. Restricted to students in the Honors Program

Honors

Tier 2 Societal Knowledge

Restricted to Students in the Honors Program. Women and Politics: This course examines the role of women in political life. Our goal is to understand how and why women both shape and are shaped by politics and public policy in the United States. To achieve this, we will examine a set of inter-related questions: What strategies have women used to gain political power? How does gender affect public opinion and electoral behavior? Do women¿s experiences as candidates and officeholders differ from those of men? Besides women's participation in the traditional spheres of what is considered politics¿women as voters and politicians¿are there other ways that women have become "political" actors? How do the political system and political culture influence women's access to power? How does the presence or absence of women in the policymaking process affect public policy and the quality of women's lives? How do sex and gender intersect with other dimensions of women¿s identities, such as race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality? What barriers continue to impede women's full political participation and representation, and what can be done to overcome these obstacles? To answer these questions, we will explore the transformation of women¿s political participation in the United States from the colonial era to the present.

Megan Sholar

MoWeFr 10:25AM - 11:15AM

01/13/2025 - 04/26/2025

In person

Lake Shore Campus

Lake Shore Campus

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