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Sobre o conteúdo
As we see American women coming into positions of economic and political influence, we start to wonder: why now? The Women Have Always Worked MOOC, offered in four parts, explores the history of women in America and introduces students to historians’ work to uncover the place of women and gender in America’s past. After a brief survey of the emergence of women's history as an academic field and its impact on the study of history as a whole, we will begin course one with a look at the experiences of women in Colonial America. We will explore the lives of enslaved women, of indentured servants, and of the rural housewife. We will learn the ways that women struggled to loosen the constraints of family by proclaiming that they, like men, possessed individual rights.
As this course progresses through the emergence of an industrial era, we will follow women from the home into the workplace, and explore how this shift influenced family life, power relationships within the family, and the ability for women to organize politically. Together we will examine the customs, cultures, and ideologies that governed women's lives in Colonial America and the early 19th Century.
Pré-requisito
Recommended for those with an undergraduate level interest in history, labor, and gender.
Programa de estudos
- How we account for the rise of the women's history as an academic field
- How the relationship between race, class, and gender has impacted the kinds of work that different women do
- What institutions and practices governed gender dynamics in Colonial America
- The ways in which women shaped and participated in the American Revolution, and what the American Revolution meant for American women
- How the ideologies of separate spheres and domesticity originated
- How women began their involvement in political activity and moral reform campaigns and how the rise of an independent movement for women's rights in the United States came about
- How the shift to women's work as paid work influenced family life, power relationships within the family, and the ability for women to organize politically
Instrutores
Alice Kessler-Harris
R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History Emerita
Columbia University
Nick Juravich
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Women's History
New-York Historical Society
Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning
New-York Historical Society
Intelligent Television
Criador do conteúdo
A Universidade de Columbia é uma universidade privada situada em Morningside Heights, na parte noroeste do bairro de Manhattan, em Nova Iorque (Estados Unidos). As suas origens remontam ao King's College, fundado em 1754 pelo rei Jorge II da Grã-Bretanha. É uma das mais antigas instituições de ensino superior dos Estados Unidos e faz parte do grupo Ivy League, que reúne oito das mais antigas, mais famosas, mais prestigiadas e mais elitistas universidades do país.
Columbia é uma das universidades mais selectivas e prestigiadas do mundo. A taxa de admissão foi de 5,1% em 2019, comparável à de Harvard e Stanford. Classificada em primeiro lugar nos Estados Unidos em matéria de investigação, é a sexta no mundo (quarta nos Estados Unidos) no ranking CUWR das 1000 melhores universidades do mundo e a oitava no Shanghai University Rankings.
Plataforma
EdX est une plateforme d'apprentissage en ligne (dite FLOT ou MOOC). Elle héberge et met gratuitement à disposition des cours en ligne de niveau universitaire à travers le monde entier. Elle mène également des recherches sur l'apprentissage en ligne et la façon dont les utilisateurs utilisent celle-ci. Elle est à but non lucratif et la plateforme utilise un logiciel open source.
EdX a été fondée par le Massachusetts Institute of Technology et par l'université Harvard en mai 2012. En 2014, environ 50 écoles, associations et organisations internationales offrent ou projettent d'offrir des cours sur EdX. En juillet 2014, elle avait plus de 2,5 millions d'utilisateurs suivant plus de 200 cours en ligne.
Les deux universités américaines qui financent la plateforme ont investi 60 millions USD dans son développement. La plateforme France Université Numérique utilise la technologie openedX, supportée par Google.
