ANTHROPOLOGY BY WOMEN

ANTHRO/GEN&WS 920

Theoretical and ethnographic approaches to the anthropology of gender, focusing on current works. Topics include sexual inequality, research methods, gender and history, gender and ethnographic writing, cultural constructions of masculinity, sexuality, and gender studies and anthropological theory.

ANTHRO 909

Theoretical and practical aspects of ethnographic research; history of field research in anthropology; research design issues; writing proposals; the fieldwork experience; methods of field data collection; ethical issues; data interpretation and analysis; writing ethnography.

ANTHRO 300

Survey of cultural anthropology with emphasis on ethnographic description, methodology, and contemporary theories. Focuses on humanistic and social scientific approaches to human sociocultural diversity.

GEN&WS 800

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.

GEN&WS 810

Provides an overview of the field of gender and women's studies. Surveys the origin of the field and traces its major transformations. Explores and analyzes historical and contemporary debates that have shaped and continue to shape the field. Interrogates the mission of gender and women's studies. Examines the processes and products of academic professionalization. Investigates the value of graduate training in gender and women's studies.