Undergraduate Program

This concentration allows students to explore the history of women around the globe. Introductory courses include surveys of women in United States and European history. From there, students may compare and contrast the histories of women and gender in Africa, East Asia, and the Middle East. Topical courses investigate such issues as women's roles in Europe's "conquest" of the Americas, the relationship between gender and politics in Central Africa, the history of sexuality, and the participation of women in political movements like the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. For more details on the History Department's general undergraduate requirements, click here.

If you have any additional questions regarding the undergraduate concentration in Women's and Gender History, please feel free to contact an undergraduate advisor at history_advising@umail.umd.edu or 301-405-0072.

Recent courses taught have included:

HIST 208Z: Women and Gender in Imperial and Modern China
HIST 210: Women in America to 1880
HIST 211: Women in America since 1880
HIST 212: Women in Western Europe, 1750 - Present
HIST 219J: History of Sexuality in America
HIST 309J: Women and the Family in Ancient Judaism
HIST 319C: Women and Gender in African History
HIST 319I: Women and the Civil Rights Movement
HIST 319R: Gender in the United States
HIST 408X: Women, Gender, and Modernity in the Americas
HIST 419A: Gender, Childhood, and Family in Jewish History
HIST 419C: Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
HIST 419F: Women and Gender in Modern Japan and the Japanese Diaspora
HIST 419I: Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern China
HIST 419L: Gender, Culture and Politics in a Central African Empire
HIST 419W: Women and Reform Movements in 20th Century U.S.
HIST 492: Women and Society in the Middle East
HIST 493: Victorian Women in England, France, and the United States