Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
HIST 4000 - Capstone: Comparative Women’s and Gender History
This seminar offers the opportunity for students of history to examine the continuities and changes over time and space in the history of women and gender and to think about the history of women and gender in a comparative context. In units on the history of motherhood, sex and sexuality, labor, politics, education and law, we examine the varieties of gendered experiences and historians’ approaches to those experiences.Through practicing oral presentations and leading group discussion, the course also teaches public speaking.
Requisites: SR and 6 credit hours in HIST
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Speaking and Listening, Capstone: Capstone or Culminating Experience
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- 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.
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