Fall 2019 - GSWS 322 D100

Feminist Approaches to Research (4)

Class Number: 4265

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Sep 3 – Dec 2, 2019: Thu, 1:30–5:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Prerequisites:

    30 units, including three units in GSWS or WS or GDST.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Explores a variety of feminist research methods including the definition of feminist research, the quantitative/qualitative controversy, action research, participant observation, survey, ethnography, case study, oral history, transnational study, interviews and research ethics. Students who have taken WS 208 may not take this course for further credit.

COURSE DETAILS:

What questions, concerns, and practices guide feminist research and inquiry? This class offers an interdisciplinary overview of feminist approaches to the production of knowledge and difference. We will learn what methods feminist research brings to the study of several major issues including: (1) how knowledge is produced and identities are shaped in everyday life and at the systemic level; (2) the broader dynamics of power that structure what kinds of knowledge gains dominance and visibility, and which perspectives and beliefs are marginalized; (3) the ways that feminist, queer, and decolonial modes of research, theory, and practice expose, disrupt, or revise dominant systems of knowing. Methods and topics include: feminist and decolonial epistemologies, autoethnography, critical discourse analysis, oral history, performance research, material culture, and digital media.  Emphasis will be placed not only on approaches to conducting research, but also on modes of disseminating findings from podcasts to Wikipedia

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

For more detailed information please see the GSWS website: http://www.sfu.ca/gsws/courses/Educational_Goals.html

Grading

  • Attendance and participation 15%
  • Methods Project (~1500-word paper or equivalent length podcast, visual essay, or video) 20%
  • Object Lesson (~1500-word paper or equivalent length podcast, visual essay, or video) 20%
  • Wikipedia Revision (5% tutorial & edits; 5% library research workshop; 15% annotated bibliography; 20% completed edits of 250-300 words) 45%

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Course texts will be available online, through Canvas or SFU Library

Registrar Notes:

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Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the University community.  Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the University. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the University. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS