Spring 2027

Feminist Approach to Research and Writing

A feminist approach to research and writing in Gender and Women's Studies, focusing on literacy skills and primary source engagement.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2020: 3.75 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.85 GPA, 96.3% A/AB (n=27 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Develop scholarly questions through engagement with different kinds of sources and posing questions to prompt productive group discussion.

  • Learn the logic of notes, bibliographies, libraries, and archives, and how to consult them to identify and locate source materials. Further, students will take full advantage of the range of library resources including interlibrary loan.

  • Determine the perspective, credibility, and utility of source materials. Distinguish between primary and secondary material for a particular topic. Identify the perspective or authorial stance of a source. Summarize an argument presented in a text. Distinguish between the content of a source and its meaning in relation to a particular question.

  • Develop and present an argument. Use sources appropriately to create, modify, and support tentative conclusions and new questions.

  • Make an argument. Identify the parts of an argument and how to support it convincingly.

  • Communicate ideas and research findings effectively through formal and informal written and oral presentations.

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Satisfied Communications A

  • Satisfied Communications A
GEN&WS 240

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  • Satisfied Communications A

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2020: 3.75 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.85 GPA, 96.3% A/AB (n=27 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Gender and Women's Studies research
  • Four modes of literacy: speaking, reading, writing, and listening
  • Primary source engagement
  • Argument development and presentation

Skills

  • Asking and defining research questions, finding and analyzing evidence, assessing scholarly interpretations, building bibliographies, and making arguments.
  • Consulting libraries and archives, using interlibrary loan, and locating source materials.
  • Evaluating source credibility and perspective, distinguishing primary from secondary materials, and summarizing arguments.

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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