History and Women's Studies

Making history and finding your voice:

If you love history but can't find the women

or

if you've ever wondered why you know so little about women artists, adventurers, or politicians

then

Windsor's B.A. in History and Women's Studies could be the program for you!

You learn about women, past and present, famous and not so well known.

Women who changed their world - and changed themselves in the process:

• Women like Nellie McClung who helped Canadian women win the vote.
• Like Mary Two-Axe Early who championed the rights of aboriginal women denied Indian status.
• Like Viola Desmond who waged a one-woman protest against race segregation ten years before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back
  of the bus in Alabama.

You learn about women who have challenged taken-for-granted assumptions that stereotype who women are and what they have the potential to accomplish.

You learn about tea parties, marches, strikes, and the many other ways women have come together to raise their voices and press their points.

History has been a leader in incorporating women into our study of the past. The University of Windsor’s History Department offers a number of courses in women’s and gender history.

Women’s Studies broadens and deepens your historical understanding. Women and gender relations are at the heart of the program. But this is not its boundary. Students examine how race, social class, religion, sexuality, and gender have shaped the lives of women and men in Canada and elsewhere.

Careers

A combined Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Women’s Studies is excellent preparation for anything you might want to do after graduation: social worker, librarian, lawyer, manager, mother, teacher, politician, self-employment.

If Primary/Junior (JK to Grade 6) or Junior/Intermediate (Grades 4-10) teaching is your goal, History and Women’s Studies is a powerful combination because you learn to examine the social forces and stereotypes that shape children’s lives inside and outside of the classroom.

If you are thinking about teaching Intermediate/Senior (Grades 7-12), you need two teachable subjects: History and another program such as English or French. If this is your plan, you might want to consider a minor (6 courses) in Women’s Studies.

Recommended Course Sequence for Year 1

• Two 100-level History courses
• 53-100: Women in Canadian Society
• 53-201: Women, Sexuality, and Social Justice
• Two 100-level Women's Studies courses
• One Arts or Languages course
• One Science course
• Two additional courses from any area of study, excluding Social Sciences

Recommended History Courses

Select two:

• 43-123: The World in the Twentieth Century: 1914-1945
• 43-124: The World in the Twentieth Century: 1945-Present
• 43-197 Europe Encounters the World I and II

Recommended Women's Studies Courses

Select two:

• 53-106: Women and Religion
• 53-120: Gal Pals: Women and Friendship
• 53-130: Imagining Women

For more information contact:

History Department
519-253-3000 ext. 2318
history@uwindsor.ca

or

Women's Studies
519-253-3000 ext. 2315
womenst@uwindsor.ca
http://uwindsor.ca/womens