- AMST210 American Dreams/American Realities: Men and Women in Society and Culture 1600-1860
- Course Description
- Documents, diaries, letters, essays, fiction, and art, along with secondary historical and anthropological sources, are used to compare the dreams and realities of men’s and women’s lives in America from the first contact between European explorers and Native Americans up through the Age of Reform (1830-60). Topics include visions of landscape and nature; contrasting cultures of Indians and Anglo-Americans; family and "women’s place"; slavery; working class organization; and women’s rights.
Prerequisite: ENGL 102. - Academic Information
- Credits: 3
Distribution Area: Humanities.
Diversity Area: United States. - Schedule & Fee
- Dates: Feb 1 - May 7
Class #: 24098
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total Course Fee: $960 - Instructor
- Patricia Raub
patricia.raub@umb.edu | Bio - Book Information
- Boyer, The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People, To 1877. Vol. I, Concise 6th edition (Wadsworth Publications) ISBN-10: 0547222815 ISBN-13: 9780547222813
- Black Hawk (Dover edition) ISBN-10: 0486281051; ISBN-13: 978-0486281056
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Dover Thrift Edition. 0486284999; 978-0486284996
- Wimba Requirement
- UMB online courses use Wimba classroom (a live discussion tool) at least twice during the semester. Information about Horizon Wimba can be found at www.dlvpc.umb.edu/wimbasupport.htm. Your course instructor will inform you about dates and times of course meetings in Wimba Classroom.