Mana Wahine: Hawaiian History through Powerful Hawaiian Women [KHO3222 (Alt 11, 12)]
Semester Course
Prerequisite: None
* This course satisfies the HAWAIIAN HISTORY social studies class requirement. This course can also be taken in addition to Hawaiian History and will then count as a Social Studies elective.
Open to grades 11-12
This course, taught in English, identifies and examines the wahine Hawaiʻi leaders of Hawai‘i along with the events, issues, and affiliations of their direction in the course of Hawaiian History. The wahine leaders who lead social change in Hawaiian Society will also be explored and evaluated. Mana Wahine will delve into the lives and decisions made by our aliʻi wahine and other wahine alakaʻi from the time of pre-contact Hawaiʻi through modern times. Though this course will focus on wahine leaders, influential aliʻi and alakaʻi who are kāne will also be studied as kāne and wahine worked complementary to one another in order to drive the lāhui Hawaiʻi. Students will learn and compare the leadership styles of our kāne and wahine leaders of past and present.