2026 Fall > GRAD > WGS > WGS 597
Special Topics in Women's Studies/Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies
Course #: WGS 597
Description:
This course offers intensive study of a selected topic in Women's Studies offered through the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies. Course content varies according to the topic, which will be announced prior to the registration period.
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Session:
Regular
Class Dates:
09/08/2026 - 12/11/2026
Capacity:
1
Enrolled:
0
Status:
Open
Credits:
3/3
Class Notes:
GCWS Fem. & Queer Methodolo.: ,Professor: Ali E. Erol, Boston College,The purpose of doing academic research broadly revolves around knowledge production and includes steps such as hypothesizing, data coding, analyzing, connecting it to the literature, arguing with the arguments in the literature and producing charts and measuring impact and so on. Such steps usually expressed in the language borrowed from the supposedly objective natural sciences might create the impression that the way we approach knowledge production, the knowledge we produce, and the tools we use to produce knowledge with are free of political bias or they are immune from reproducing cultural or epistemic violence. Unfortunately, this is not the case. The purpose of this course is twofold. First, we will learn to interrogate this supposedly objective process of knowledge production and the produced knowledge from the perspective of feminist and queer epistemologies and theories. Second, we will learn the ways in which we can produce knowledge based and grounded in feminist and queer epistemologies. In addition, we will practice paying close attention to locating ourselves and any research in the history of knowledge production and especially how the produced knowledge and process itself contributes to or challenges existing power structures or structures of violence in society.
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