Women's and Gender Studies Concentration

The Women's and Gender Studies program at Athabasca is designed to develop or expand your knowledge of the established field of women's studies and the emerging field of gender studies. You will have the opportunity to engage with a range of feminist theories, concepts, history, methodologies, research, and activism and discover how they inform the diverse lives and experiences of women across cultures. As a result of completing this program, students should be able to: demonstrate familiarity and experience with women-centred research methods and analytical techniques and critically analyze their use of these methods and techniques in a cross-disciplinary approach; apply feminist research methods in designing their own research projects: demonstrate insights into ethical questions, with discussion of the elements of solutions, their sources, and qualities of evidence for their resolution; demonstrate an understanding of the history of feminist thought and discuss its influence on how we think about questions and issues across disciplines and in daily life; exhibit university-level skills in academic writing, including research and argumentation, and apply their academic writing skills to womenпПХs studies problems and issues; employ basic research skills to access and critically evaluate information that bears on topics in womenпПХs studies from scholarly and popular sources, including electronic (web) sources, video and audio sources, archival and printed sources.

Field of study: Women's Studies

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