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Graduate Certificate in Arts - Gender Studies
Graduate Certificate in ArtsSpecialisation (formal)Year: 2018
Graduate Certificate in Arts - Gender Studies
Contact information
Coordinator
Associate Professor Tamara Kohn
Currently enrolled students:
Future students:
Overview
Gender Studies considers the significance of gender and sexuality across a broad range of cultural contexts, identities and histories. The program analyses how gender intersects with crucial issues such as ageing, class, disability, ethnicity and globalisation. Subjects consider ideas about femininity, masculinity and sexuality through close engagement with an extensive variety of theorists, case studies and media. Gender Studies is transdisciplinary and draws on the diverse interests of specialists located throughout the Faculty. This enables its students to develop a unique combination of research skills drawn from both the Arts and Social Sciences.
Intended learning outcomes
Students who complete the Graduate Certificate in Arts in this area of specialisation should:
- develop a detailed knowledge and understanding of how concepts and practices gender and sexuality function in contemporary societies;
- acquire critical and analytical skills and methods to enable the identification and critical analysis of gender- and sexuality-related issues within complex, changing social and cultural contexts;
- articulate the relationship between diverse forms of knowledge on gender and sexuality and the social, historical and cultural contexts that produced them;
- develop an independent approach to understanding the cross-disciplinary field of gender studies that uses rigorous methods of inquiry and appropriate methodologies, that are applied with intellectual honesty and a respect for ethical values;
- appreciate the value of an international and interdisciplinary approach to the study of gender and sexuality, and the relevance of gender studies skills, practices and understandings to a broad range of professional and disciplinary contexts;
- work with independence, self- reflection and creativity to meet goals and challenges in the workplace and personal life;
- deploy insights generated from their intellectual engagements with gender studies to act as informed and critically discriminating participants within the community of scholars, as citizens and in the work force; and
- communicate their knowledge effectively in a variety of oral and written formats.
Last updated: 31 January 2025
Structure
50 credit points
Please note: Midyear intake commencing students can only take this program on a part-time basis and it will not be available for international students.
Duration: 6 months full-time / 1 year part-time
Program Requirements -
- one core subject (12.5 points)
- elective subjects (37.5 points)
Please note: students can only take 12.5 points of elective subjects at first-year level
Please note: With the approval of the Gender Studies Coordinator, students may substitute a different gender-related subject taught in the Arts Faculty not listed in the Subject Options as one of their electives.
Total 50 points
Subject Options
Core Subjects
12.5 points
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
GEND40003 | Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective | February (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
GEND90006 | Gender, Globalisation and Development | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
GEND90007 | Rethinking Rights and Global Development | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Elective Subjects
37.5 points
Please note: students can only take 12.5 points of elective subjects at first-year level
Please note:
SPAN30001 Gender in Hispanic Cultures carries a Spanish language prerequisite
With the approval of the Gender Studies Coordinator, students may substitute a different gender-related subject taught in the Arts Faculty not listed below as one of their electives.
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
AIND20008 | Aboriginal Women and Coloniality | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ANTH20008 | Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ANTH30004 | Anthropology of Kinship and Family | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
CULS30004 | Thinking Sex | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ENGL20020 | Romanticism, Feminism, Revolution | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
GEND20001 | Sex, Gender and Power | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
GEND20003 | Genders, Bodies & Sexualities | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
GEND20006 | Sexing the Canvas: Art and Gender | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
GEND20008 | Sex and Gender Present and Future | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
GEND30003 | Gender at Work in The World | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
HIST30004 | A History of Sexualities | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
LING30012 | Language and Identity | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
PHIL30052 | Race and Gender: Philosophical Issues | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
POLS20011 | The Politics of Sex | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
POLS30015 | International Gender Politics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
SCRN30004 | Film Noir: History and Sexuality | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
SPAN30001 | Gender in Hispanic Cultures | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HPSC20023 | Sex in Science | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
AIND20009 | Racial Literacy: Indigeneity & Whiteness | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ANTH20001 | Keeping the Body in Mind | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEND20001 | Sex, Gender and Power | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
Links
http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/interdisciplinary-programs/gender-studies
Last updated: 31 January 2025