Competence aims:

• expansion of methodological knowledge concerning the academic preparation of a self-chosen topic and the ability to comprehensively present the topic
• knowledge of the methods of interdisciplinary gender studies
• ability to analyze, critically assess and independently present quantitative and qualitative data from a gender perspective
• ability to select methods for research proposals from the social sciences and humanities and to translate them into an full-fledged project
• well-founded knowledge of the interdisciplinary debate on gender categories
• analytical comprehension of the central questions and concepts of gender studies in the humanities and social sciences

Learning content:

• introduction to the methods of interdisciplinary gender studies
• thematization and, via a gender perspective, expansion of the methods of the social sciences and the humanities
• conveyance of the foundations of academic critique with which a gender-sensitive epistemology was developed
• focus and evaluation of specific methodological applications by using varying (inter)disciplinary paradigms
• critical examination of the central terms and theoretical approaches of gender studies
• allocation of various constructions of gender stereotypes and normative gender role images to their respective historical contexts of origin
• analysis of debates in the social sciences and humanities from a gender perspective
• special consideration of the relations between epistemic interest and the selection of methods as well as (self-)reflection on the part of researchers themselves