Feminist Research Methods

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course aims to expose students across disciplines to a range of feminist methodologies and critical approaches and provide them with the analytical tools to critically engage with feminist scholarship and conduct research in the humanities. As the course emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary and intersectional research, students will be familiarized with major debates within feminist thought surrounding gender, sexuality, race, and disability. Through engagements with canonical feminist texts and emerging turns within feminist thought, students will examine the ways feminist research has and continues to reframe our understanding of gender, politics, and culture. We will consider how a feminist approach informs the crafting of research questions, the construction of archives, and how academic and intellectual traditions take shape. Through various forms and genres of writing such as the annotated bibliography, literature review, and research abstract and presentation, students will develop skills needed to begin their own research project or refine ongoing work.