History 383 - SEM: SOPHIA SMITH COLLECTION

An advanced research and writing workshop on the history of the women's movement in the U.S., with emphasis on the radical organizing traditions and methods of women of color, immigrant women, working-class and LGBTQ communities. Students develop historical research methods as they work with archival materials and historical scholarship. Our focus is to prepare archival materials for an activist institute that brings dozens of organizers to Smith in Summer 2016 from reproductive justice, economic justice, labor, indigenous sovereignty, anti-violence, immigrant rights and other parts of the women's movement today, for their use in building current campaigns. Recommended: previous course in U.S. women's history and/or relevant coursework in HST, SWG, AAS, SOC, etc. Permission of the instructor required. Not open to first-years and sophomores.

Instructor permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores