This course fulfills General Education requirement in both Diversity (D) and Social and Behavioral Sciences (S) subject areas. Furthermore, it fulfills 6,000 of the total 24,000 words required for graduation.
Follow these links for more information on UF's General Education and Writing Requirements.
To receive writing credits students must achieve a minimum grade of 'C' (2.0) AND satisfactory completion of the writing component. It is possible not to meet the writing requirement and still pass the class. Students should review their degree audits after receiving their grades to verify receipt of credit for the writing component.
The UF Libraries are gradually lifting COVID restrictions over the summer. Please see our FAQ page for details and what to expect. As always, our virtual library remains 100% open!
A number of search engines exist for helping you find the right resources for your research. I recommend using Google Scholar. If you are on campus, or off campus and logged in using the UF VPN client, you will have instant access to electronic resources (e-books and e-journal articles). Furthermore, you can search specific databases and journals; check out the right column on this page to see some of the most frequently used resources for this class.
To find specific resources, head to the Library Catalog (see below). If you are trying to get ahold of a resource we don't have, check out our UBorrow or Interlibrary Loan services.
When editors or teachers ask you to write in APA Style®, they are referring to the editorial style that many of the social and behavioral sciences have adopted to present written material in the field.
Planning to conduct a survey? You need IRB approval to conduct surveys of human participants!
Learn more by visiting the University of Florida's Institutional Review Board website.
Use the Assignment Calculator to help you create a schedule for your research paper.
The University Writing Program helps undergraduate students at the University of Florida achieve their academic and professional goals by offering broad-based instruction in composition.
An annotated bibliography is an organized list of sources, each of which is followed by a brief note or “annotation.”
Searching the databsases below will help you to find scholarly, peer-reviewed sources for your project. Click here for more information on databases.
The links below are a short list of suggested journals that will be useful for your research. UF may have electronic or print copies of the articles within.
The McGill Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies offers a list of academic journals that engage with Gender, Sexuality and Feminist studies, organized by the different fields/disciplines to which they relate.
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