GENDER 203
Research Methods in Studies of Women and Gender
Description: Lecture/discussion, three hours. Focus on debates concerning methods of inquiry in gender and sexuality studies and exploration of intersections of feminist studies, masculinity studies, and queer studies. Debates and interventions concern interdisciplinary, intersectional feminist methods and changing boundaries of field over time. Exploration of critical tools to utilize and interrogate existing methodologies. Issues include examination of how feminisms have shaped and been shaped by processes of knowledge-production within and across disciplinary boundaries, cultures, and paradigms, and importance of intersectional, standpoint, and queer theory as critical research tools and as responses to issues of power, domination, oppression, and other loci of identities and difference. May be repeated once for credit with instructor change. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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You can really tell that Professor Finch is all about critical thinking. If you're not a fan of that then I don't know how you're going to survive in her class. She encourages critical thought and if you're able to express your thoughts/opinions clearly as well as reference the theories in the readings you should do very well when it comes to the hw/tests. The classroom structure consists of mainly class discussion so be prepared to do a decent amount of talking. She wants you to be able to chime in on every topic to show that you're actually thinking about the concepts presented in class and in the readings. i took her for WS Power. Her class wasn't too difficult you just have to be willing to write your best, no bullshitting papers because you'll definitely get that lackluster grade. She separated the class into two groups and each group had a 2-3 pg paper due every other week based on the readings done that week (she usually gave essay prompts). I think you had to have 5 done by the end of the quarter. A midterm and a Final both were similar and final wasn't cumulative. I suggest her class if you wanna expand your brain capacity.
You can really tell that Professor Finch is all about critical thinking. If you're not a fan of that then I don't know how you're going to survive in her class. She encourages critical thought and if you're able to express your thoughts/opinions clearly as well as reference the theories in the readings you should do very well when it comes to the hw/tests. The classroom structure consists of mainly class discussion so be prepared to do a decent amount of talking. She wants you to be able to chime in on every topic to show that you're actually thinking about the concepts presented in class and in the readings. i took her for WS Power. Her class wasn't too difficult you just have to be willing to write your best, no bullshitting papers because you'll definitely get that lackluster grade. She separated the class into two groups and each group had a 2-3 pg paper due every other week based on the readings done that week (she usually gave essay prompts). I think you had to have 5 done by the end of the quarter. A midterm and a Final both were similar and final wasn't cumulative. I suggest her class if you wanna expand your brain capacity.
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