WGSS 4800 - Capstone in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

• Students will be able to articulate a researchable question that connects to issues of women, gender, sexuality, or feminism, and identify appropriate and relevant sources of information to develop a comprehensive analysis.
• Students will be able to apply knowledge focusing on women, gender, sexuality, or feminism from across a variety of disciplines to address a particular research problem.
• Students will be able to identify appropriate sources for developing a research project, use and cite those sources in an articulate theoretical or empirical analysis, and identify relevant normative positions and counter arguments.
• Students will be able to describe feminist methodological approaches and apply appropriate methods to analyze their research questions.
• Students will be able to write and speak reflexively about their role in the research process, recognizing the way that their situated perspective affects the knowledge produced.
• Students will be able to provide constructive criticism on others’ research and writing, and implement revisions in their own work based on the feedback of others.
• Students will be able to communicate research findings in multiple ways that are clear and appropriate for the intended audience.
• Students will be able to connect relevant personal experience and academic knowledge through reflexive discussion and writing to demonstrate a developing sense of self as learner.
• Students will be able to identify their own visions of gender justice and articulate the relationship of academic work on gender/sexuality to social change beyond an academic setting.