Teaching the Past in the Present: Gender in History
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Continuing Education Option
Course description
Teaching the Past in the Present: Gender in History
One academic graduate credit in Women's Studies, administered through
Continuing Education
Cost: $88
Instructor of Record: Louise Bishop
Type of course: conference attendance (10 hours), completion of project (20
hours)
Credits: One
Grading option: Pass/No pass
100-word course description: This credit option is primarily designed for
primary and secondary school teachers. Requirements include attendance at
the conference (10 hours) and the completion of a written project (20
hours). Projects will be individually designed through collaboration with
one of the conference presenters. The goal of the project is to take one
aspect from one of the conference's thee main areas: women and power, women
and religion, or women and the arts--and to run it through the CIM/CAM
requirements, with the end product a teachable unit. The Feminist
Humanities Project will subsequently mount the material on our website, the
Virtual Resource Bank.
Prerequisite course or skills: Participants must have a bachelor's degree.
Course goals/performance objectives: The goal of the course is twofold:
to foster our collaborative model through the efforts of secondary and
postsecondary educators working together on a common text/issue/problem
to formulate teachable units that use issues of gender to revitalize the
interest in and study of historical materials
Number of hours in class/conference: 10 hours, the instructional activities
of which will include six hours of lectures, two hours of discussion, one
hour of hands-on computer time
Required reading after conference: subject area reading developed in
collaboration with conference presenter; approximately five hours of
research/reading time. CIM/CAM reading in accordance with school district:
approximately two hours of research/reading time
Project: putting together a workable unit will take approximately ten hours
of design time following appropriate conversation, research, and reading
Written assignment: A report (two pages) on the teachable unit's design and
implementation, along with the teachable unit itself: approximately two
hours to arrange the materials and write the report.
Test run: Teachers whose assignments allow experimentation can try out the
material on their classes and include that information in their reports.
Student evaluation: The completed project will comprise 80% of the grade;
conference attendance, 15%; consultation with between teacher and presenter, 5%.
List of conference presenters:
Lisa Arkin, Independent Scholar
Nora Beck, Music, Lewis and Clark College
Susan Boynton, Music, University of Oregon
Cristina Calhoon, Romance Languages, University of Oregon
Diane Downey, English, Thurston High School
Regina Psaki, Romance Languages, University of Oregon
Tim Rake, Marist High School
Elizabeth Reis, History and Women's Studies, University of Oregon
Marian Smith, Music, University of Oregon
Heather Tanner, Honors College, University of Oregon