Feminist theories, methodologies and epistemologies in research processes

The course may be taken as a single course.

Students who hold 5 ECTS from SVF-8055 Evoking Gender can only obtain 3 ECTS due to overlap in literature and course content.

We welcome applications from PhD-students who wish to expand their understanding of feminist and gender epistemologies, theories and methodologies. By exploring the genealogies of and current discussions within these fields, the students will be encouraged to think in innovative and critical ways about the materials they are investigating. Thus, they will gain the competence to advance the critical originality, profoundness, and innovative potential of their thesis.

The aim of the course is to develop the students’ ability to theorize and analyze their material, to apply advancing methods and to discuss challenges and pitfalls that occur when doing feminist and gender research. The research process and the research design of each thesis will be scrutinized with respect to feminist research ethics that call for e.g. reflexivity, reciprocity, diversity, or empowerment. The course will have a special focus on theorizing gender and power in their intersections with class, race, ethnicity, age etc. in relation to politics, artefacts and societies. The course highlights the inter- and cross-disciplinary character of gender studies. Accordingly, students from a wide variety of backgrounds and interest are welcomed to apply. The course is divided into two kinds of sessions: The students will present their topics and discuss them in groups. The lecturers will provide presentations with examples of their own research and approach to materials from their respective points of expertise.

PhD students or holders of a Norwegian Master´s Degree of five years or 3+ 2 years (or equivalent) may be admitted. PhD students must upload a document from their university stating that they are registered PhD students.Holders of a Master´s Degree must upload a Master´s Diploma with Diploma Supplement / English translation of the diploma. Applicants from listed countries must document proficiency in English. To find out if this applies to you see the following list: http://www.nokut.no/Documents/NOKUT/Artikkelbibliotek/Utenlandsk_utdanning/GSUlista/2016/GSU_list_English_14112016.pdf

For more information on accepted English proficiency tests and scores, as well as exemptions from the English proficiency tests, please see the following document: https://uit.no/Content/254419/PhD_EnglishProficiency_100913.pdf

The course has 20 seats. If the number of applicants exceeds the number of places available on the PhD course, applicants will be ranked from category 1 to 4.

Category 1: Doctoral students from UiT or other Norwegian universities who follow the national research school in gender research

Category 2: Students admitted to any PhD Programme at UiT

Category 3: Doctoral students from other universities

Category 4: People with a minimum of a Master´s Degree (or equivalent). (ANorwegian Master´s Degree of 5 years or 3 (Bachelor Degree) + 2 years (Master’sDegree).

If there are more than 20 PhD students from HSL who apply, the students who have studied the longest will be given priority.

The students should have the following learning outcomes:

Knowledge

The student has profound insights in fundamental and current feminist/queer theories. They deeply and thoroughly understand perspectives, subjects, and terminologies within feminist and gender epistemologies, theories, and methodologies.

Skills

The student can theorize and analyze independently, both orally and in writing, their material according to relevant discourses within feminist and gender research, apply advancing methods, and discuss challenges and pitfalls that occur when doing feminist and gender research. The student can analyze gender and power relations in politics, artifacts, and societies.

Competence

Through understanding and approaching research with feminist methodologies, the student will be able to think in new and critical ways about the materials they are investigating. Thus, they will gain the competence to advance their thesis's critical originality and profoundness and deepen their social and scientific relevance.It will allow students to focus on one of these in the course assignment. The 3-day course meeting will consist of lectures and group discussion seminars where the students will discuss assigned course readings and their own research projects.

If you pass the examination in this course, you will get an reduction in credits (as stated below), if you previously have passed the following courses:

• SVF-8055 Evoking gender 3 ects

Lectures, seminars, student presentations, group assignments.

All courses will be evaluated once during the period of the study program. The board of the program decides which courses will be evaluated by students and teacher each year.

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