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SILVER CITY—A new course is being offered at Western New Mexico University for Summer Session II titled ”Eminent Victorian Women.”

The course will provide an introduction to the history of women in Victorian England. Through discussion, films and contemporary readings, students will learn what life was like for women in Victorian Britain.

The lives of well-known and lesser known women of the nineteenth century will be studied in order to understand the impact the British Empire had on the lives of women world-wide, as well as learn how women changed the course of history.

“The class is open to all, not just students majoring in History. Retirees, teachers, and English majors will find value in these topics,” said Griffon Campbell, Ph.D., instructor of the course.

Topics include socio-economic status, education, sexuality and courtship, marriage and domesticity, recreation, laws restricting women, work, philanthropy, politics, war, prostitution, the Contagious Diseases Acts, and Jack the Ripper.

The History 480/580 course is three credit hours, and may also be audited. Classes will meet from 8 a.m. to 9:50 a.m., Mondays through Fridays, and begin on July 6, concluding on August 4.

For more information on the course, contact WNMU’s History Department at 538-6635. To register, stop by the Registrar’s Office located in the Castorena Administration Building.

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