HIST 4000 - Capstone: Comparative Women’s and Gender History

• 1. Students will be able to identify the key questions in the history of women and gender in comparative contexts.
• 2. Students will be able to analyze and evaluate the methods and theoretical approaches historians take in addressing questions about the history of women and gender.
• 3. Students will be able to compare and evaluate gendered experiences across time and place.
• 4. Students will be able to distinguish the changes in gendered experiences over time.
• 5. Students will be able to interpret and synthesize information from course readings in order to articulate their own questions about women’s and gendered experiences.
• 6. Students will be able to articulate the position of various works of scholarship within historiographical debate.
• 7. Students will be able to organize credible, relevant, and convincing information that supports the principal ideas of their presentations.
• 8. Students will be able to use unbiased vocabulary, terminology, and sentence structure appropriate to the topic and audience.
• 9. Students will be able to use posture, gestures, eye contact, and voice to enhance the effectiveness of a presentation and to make the speaker appear polished / confident.
• 10. Students will be able to articulate a precise, compelling, and memorable purpose or main point of a presentation.
• 11. Students will be able to demonstrate a developing sense of self as students of history that builds on this and previous courses.
• 12. Students will be able to explain the varieties of gendered experiences drawing on this course and their previous encounters with specific arenas of women’s and gender history.