Spring 2027

Research Methods in Gender & Women's Studies

Graduate course exploring feminist approaches to research methods in social, humanities, and health sciences, critiquing epistemology, methodology, and interpretation across disciplines.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Leigh Senderowicz3.5/5

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.81 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.80 GPA, 93.3% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • 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.

  • Identify historical and contemporary debates and tensions in conceptualizing, conducting, analyzing, and disseminating feminist research.

  • Analyze research methods strategies and techniques through a feminist lens.

  • Apply feminist methodologies to your own research projects and interests.

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GEN&WS 800

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.80 GPA, 93.3% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

LEIGH SENDEROWICZ is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.81 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.80 GPA, 93.3% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Feminist approaches to ethnography, interviews, statistics, focus groups, surveys, archival research, discourse analysis, and visual analysis.
  • Transdisciplinary critique of epistemology, methodology, methods, interpretation, and writing.

Skills

  • Describe feminist conversations about epistemology, methodologies, and methods.
  • Identify debates and tensions in conceptualizing, conducting, analyzing, and disseminating feminist research.
  • Analyze research methods strategies and techniques through a feminist lens.
  • Apply feminist methodologies to own research projects and interests.

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GEN&WS 800 · Spring 2027

Research Methods in Gender & Women's Studies

Recorded 2026-10-14
GEN&WS 800 · Spring 2027

Approaches to Research in GWS

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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