INQ-110 | The Women's Suffrage Movement

Full Title: The Women's Suffrage Movement

Topic Description:

In this course we will answer the question, “How did women get the vote?”  Specifically, we will learn the basic skills of college level thinking, analysis, and writing through a focused exploration of the American woman suffrage movement.  More generally, this course will teach students how to think and write by looking in depth at how historians work.  The course starts with the origins of ideas about woman suffrage in the eighteenth century, and ends with the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920.  We will mostly read documents that were written at the time by suffragists and anti-suffragists, supplemented by readings from historians.  As we work through the movement’s history we will build skills necessary for reading and analyzing documents, constructing and defending arguments, and communicating ideas effectively in writing.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: April 2010