Overview
WGST 200 offers the opportunity for students to begin feminist research, and it provides suggestions for assessing the research of others. A range of approaches, methodologies and methods will be examined. Students will have a chance to consider ethical dilemmas, the researcher-participant relationship and some of the problems associated with feminist collaboration in research projects. Students will go through the research process step by step, defining their research question, choosing their methods and then conducting their own study.
Evaluation
To receive credit for WGST 200, you must achieve a course composite grade of at least D (50 percent). The weighting of the composite grade is as follows:
| Activity | Weight |
| Oral Review | 15% |
| Research Question and Annotated Bibliography | 20% |
| Choosing Research Methods | 25% |
| Research Report | 40% |
| Total | 100% |
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University’s online Calendar.
Materials
Digital course materials
Links to the following course materials will be made available in the course:
Kirby. S., Greaves, L., & Reid, C. (2006). Experience research social change: Methods beyond the mainstream (2nd ed.). Toronto: Broadview Press.
Physical course materials
The following course materials are included in a course package that will be shipped to your home prior to your course’s start date:
Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. (2006). Intersectional feminist frameworks: An emerging vision. Ottawa, ON: CRIAW/ICREF. (booklet)
Eichler, M. (1991). Nonsexist research methods: A practical guide. New York: Routledge, Chapman, & Hall.
Kirsch, G. E. (1999). Ethical dilemmas in feminist research: The politics of location, interpretation, and publication. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Other Materials
The course materials include online readings accessible through links in the course or via the course Digital Reading Room.
Challenge for credit
Overview
The challenge for credit process allows you to demonstrate that you have acquired a command of the general subject matter, knowledge, intellectual and/or other skills that would normally be found in a university-level course.
Full information about challenge for credit can be found in the Undergraduate Calendar.
Evaluation
The Challenge Exam is marked on a pass-fail basis. Your transcript will record a pass if you achieve at least D (50 percent) on the exam; it will show a fail if you achieve less than "D" 50 percent on the exam.
Challenge for credit course registration form