Section Info: GNDST-201-01

Course Title: Methods and Practices in Feminist Scholarship
Start Date: 01/27/2026 End Date: 05/12/2026
Term: Spring Semester 2026
Description: This is a class about doing research as a feminist. We will explore questions such as: What makes feminist research feminist? What makes it research? What are the proper objects of feminist research? Who can do feminist research? What can feminist research do? Are there feminist ways of doing research? Why and how do the stories we tell in our research matter? Some of the key issues and themes we will address include: accountability, location, citational practices and politics, identifying stakes and stakeholders, intersectionality, inter/disciplinarity, choosing and describing our topics and methods, and research as storytelling. The class will be writing intensive and will culminate in each student producing a research portfolio.
Distribution(s): III - Social Sciences
Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     Credits:4.00    

Faculty         Phone         Email address        
Sandra Russell             russell@mtholyoke.edu  

Meeting Dates         Method         Meeting days         Meeting times         Building name         Room     Frequency    
01/27/2026 - 05/12/2026   Discussion   Monday and Wednesday   11:30AM - 12:45PM   SHTK - Shattuck Hall   318   Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses        
Prereq: GNDST-101. Take previously   Required  

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Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted     Capacity: 18     Enrollment: 18     Available: 0     Waitlist: 4
Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List         Required         Publisher Full Price        
To be determined.                    

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This is NOT the complete book list for this class.