Gender Studies

Bachelor of ArtsMajorYear: 2020

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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 this major will:

  • Have developed a detailed knowledge and understanding of how concepts and practices of 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;
  • Communicate their knowledge effectively in a variety of oral and written 
formats;
  • Be able to work effectively in groups, with awareness and sensitivity to diversity of backgrounds and cultural difference, in order to address shared goals.

Last updated: 18 December 2020

Structure

100 credit points

MAJOR

A major in Gender Studies consists of eight x 12.5-point subjects:

Level 1 

Two subjects / 25 points 

  • GEND10001 Sex, Gender and Culture: An Introduction (compulsory); and
  • One Arts Foundation Subject (MULT10014 Identity is strongly recommended; this can count towards major credit points for a single major) or
  • One additional approved level 1 elective (for a double major). See Arts Foundation Structure page for further information.

Level 2 

Three subjects / 37.5 points 

  • GEND20008 Sex and Gender Present and Future (compulsory); and
  • Two level 2 Gender Studies subjects and/ or approved elective subjects*

Level 3 

Three subjects / 37.5 points 

  • Compulsory capstone subject GEND30003 Gender at Work in the World
  • CULS30004 Thinking Sex (compulsory); and
  • One level 3 Gender Studies subjects and/or approved elective subjects*

*NOTE: As long as all 4 compulsory Gender Studies subjects are completed, students taking the Gender Studies major or minor may select different gender-related subjects taught in the Arts Faculty not listed below to make up the required additional points at levels 2 and 3, with the written approval of the Gender Studies coordinator.

Total 100 points

Note: Level 1 subjects must be successfully completed before progressing to level 2 subjects; level 2 subjects must be successfully completed before progressing to level 3 subjects. Only students completing a major in Gender Studies can enrol in the capstone subject.
Refer to the Bachelor of Arts Handbook page for further information.

 

MINOR

A 75 point minor sequence is made up of the following:

Level 1 (25 points)

Level 2 (25 points)

  • 25 points of level 2 Gender Studies subjects and/ or approved elective subjects

Level 3 (25 points)

  • 25 points of level 3 Gender Studies subjects and/ or approved elective subjects

 

*The Capstone is not available in the minor.

Subject Options

Gender Studies - Level 1

Students completing a major or minor in Gender Studies must complete the following subject and one Arts Foundation Subject.

Code Name Study period Credit Points
GEND10001 Sex, Gender and Culture: An Introduction
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
HIST10017 Cleopatra to Clinton: Women & Leadership Not available in 2020 12.5

Gender Studies - Level 2 Compulsory Subject

This subject is compulsory for students undertaking the Gender Studies major. It is highly recommended that students completing the Gender Studies minor complete this subject.

 

Code Name Study period Credit Points
GEND20008 Sex and Gender Present and Future
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Level 2 Approved Electives

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ASIA20003 Genders and Desires in Asia
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ANTH20008 Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
GEND20003 Genders, Bodies & Sexualities Not available in 2020 12.5
ENGL20020 Romanticism, Feminism, Revolution
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
POLS20011 The Politics of Sex
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
GEND20006 Sexing the Canvas: Art and Gender Not available in 2020 12.5
ANTH20001 Keeping the Body in Mind
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
GEND20001 Sex, Gender and Power Not available in 2020 12.5
HPSC20023 Sex in Science Not available in 2020 12.5
CULS20017 Gender and Contemporary Culture
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Level 3 Capstone Subject

Students completing a major in Gender Studies must complete the capstone subject.

Code Name Study period Credit Points
GEND30003 Gender at Work in The World
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Level 3 Compulsory Subject

This subject is compulsory for students undertaking the Gender Studies major. It is highly recommended that students completing the Gender Studies minor complete this subject.

Code Name Study period Credit Points
CULS30004 Thinking Sex
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Level 3 Approved Electives

Code Name Study period Credit Points
POLS30015 International Gender Politics
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
HIST30004 A History of Sexualities
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ANTH30004 Anthropology of Kinship and Family Not available in 2020 12.5
PHIL30052 Race and Gender: Philosophical Issues
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
SCRN30004 Film Noir: History and Sexuality
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
SPAN30001 Gender in Hispanic Cultures Not available in 2020 12.5
LING30012 Language and Identity Not available in 2020 12.5
GEND30005 Gender Diversity in the Workplace
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
GEND30006 Trauma, Memory, Bodies
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
HIST30075 Gender in History, 1800 to the Present Not available in 2020 12.5
CULS30006 Global Cultures
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Links

http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/interdisciplinary-programs/gender-studies

Last updated: 18 December 2020