Department of Gender Studies

This advanced undergraduate seminar is constructed to allow students to design and develop a project that will reflect their understanding of gender studies through the lens of folklore and/or ethnomusicology.  It provides an opportunity for students to consolidate and build upon knowledge they have learned through their coursework and experiences.  This semester’s class will take up the contemporary repositioning occurring in the fields of Folklore and Ethnomusicology in how to critically, reflexively, and creatively rethink and rework methods, ethics, and theories when conducting research projects. We will engage with a diverse range of works and theories in order to stimulate students’ own interests and expand on possible ways of disseminating their projects.  Projects will necessarily be works in progress, and we will operate as a learning community to collaboratively provide support and ideas to each other.