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History Capstone (HIS 499W)

Term: 2023-2024 School Year Fall Semester

Faculty

Yesenia Navarrete Hunter

Yesenia Navarrete Hunter is an Assistant Professor of History at Heritage University, located on the traditional lands of the Yakama People. Her work centers the braided histories of immigrants and settlers and their impact on Indigenous peoples. Her work is guided by the question: How do people make place and create rhythms of belonging in fragile spaces? The aesthetics of her work are guided by elements of place, memory , embodied practices, and relationality. Along with her scholarly work, Yesenia and the Hunter Family explore questions of belonging through what they call "Hunter Gatherings,” events that invite others to participate in dialogue and making. Hunter's art and scholarship are fueled by her role as a mother and deeply influenced by the belief that belonging is more than a basic human need, it also operates as a motivation and expression and can link as to living big full lives.

Schedule

Tue-Thu, 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM (8/21/2023 - 12/8/2023) Location: TO PETRI 1118

Description

This course provides a platform for students to demonstrate their mastery of the historical discipline. Students will begin the course by asking a significant historical question before proceeding through the steps of producing a conference-style research paper based on original research: analyzing historiographical trends; establishing a bibliography by gathering and sifting primary and secondary sources; creating an outline by analyzing, ordering, synthesizing, and interpreting evidence; generating a historical argument and writing effective analytical narrative; and presenting their research in a public forum. The capstone course also provides students with formal and informal opportunities to reflect on their experiences of the Heritage University History program. Offered Spring. Prerequisite(s): HIS 322W