If you are successful, you should be able to do the following upon completion of this course:

• Evaluate, interpret, and use information, ideas and arguments from a variety of perspectives (including the written arguments of others) to analyze complex issues
• Interpret and combine information to reach and/or evaluate well-reasoned conclusions
• Construct evidence-based writing about literary texts
• Develop and explain complex ideas in writing
• Critique the impact of historical, social, and cultural events, including social and political activism, affecting women of different races, ethnicities, and cultures, including understandings of gender
• Develop a framework for understanding civic values and responsibilities as conveyed in women's literature
• Discuss and analyze women writers, literary movements, genres and/or texts studied in the course
• Construct and explore meaningful questions about diverse human and gendered experiences through literary study
• Explain connections between literary texts and related historical, social, and literary contexts
• Analyze literary texts using appropriate vocabulary and a variety of methodological approaches and perspectives, exploring the ways literary texts reflect and challenge cultural values, beliefs, and understandings of gender
• Support interpretations of literary texts with valid textual evidence and use appropriate scholarly sources to further inquiry into literary texts
• Compose well-organized writing of literary analysis that features substantial, logical, and concrete development of ideas with appropriate documentation