RESEARCH METHODS IN GENDER & WOMEN'S STUDIES
Explores feminist approaches to methods in the social sciences, humanities, and health sciences, such as ethnography, interviews, statistics, focus groups, surveys, archival research, discourse analysis, and visual analysis. Applies transdisciplinary perspectives to consider work from a range of academic fields and topics in order to critique issues of epistemology, methodology, methods, interpretation, and writing.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe feminist conversations about epistemology (the study of knowledge – what it is, how we know); methodologies (how we go about producing new knowledges); methods (the actual tools we use to collect and analyze data) and the relationship between them. Audience: Graduate 2. Identify historical and contemporary debates and tensions in conceptualizing, conducting, analyzing, and disseminating feminist research. Audience: Graduate 3. Analyze research methods strategies and techniques through a feminist lens. Audience: Graduate 4. Apply feminist methodologies to your own research projects and interests. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe feminist conversations about epistemology (the study of knowledge – what it is, how we know); methodologies (how we go about producing new knowledges); methods (the actual tools we use to collect and analyze data) and the relationship between them. Audience: Graduate 2. Identify historical and contemporary debates and tensions in conceptualizing, conducting, analyzing, and disseminating feminist research. Audience: Graduate 3. Analyze research methods strategies and techniques through a feminist lens. Audience: Graduate 4. Apply feminist methodologies to your own research projects and interests. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027