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Gender Studies
Bachelor of ArtsMajorYear: 2022
Gender Studies
Contact information
Coordinator
Dr Kalissa Alexeyeff
Email: k.alexeyeff@unimelb.edu.au
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
On completion of this major, students should be able to:
- 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: 12 November 2022
Structure
100 credit points
This major requires the completion of:
- 12.5 credit points of Level 1 Core Subjects
12.5 credit points of Arts Discovery (for a single major) or 12.5 credit points of Approved Level 1 electives (for a double major)
- 12.5 credit points of Level 2 Core Subjects
- 25 credit points of Level 2 electives
- 12.5 credit points of Level 3 Capstone Subjects
- 25 credit points of Level 3 electives
As long as all 3 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.
*Note:
Students must undertake one Arts Foundation subject as part of the course requirements and the Arts Foundation can be counted in one major only. For this major, you will need to complete two Level 1 subjects.
If you are completing a single major the correct enrolment for this major at level 1 is: One Arts Foundation subject and One Level 1 core subject
If you are completing a double major the correct enrolment for this major at level 1 is: One Arts Foundation subject and One Level 1 core subject OR One Level 1 core subject and One Level 1 elective subject
Level 1 Core Subject
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
GEND10001 | Sex, Gender and Culture: An Introduction | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEND10002 | Global Intersections:Gender, Race, Class | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 2 Core Subject
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
GEND20008 | Sex and Gender Present and Future | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 2 electives
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ANTH20001 | Keeping the Body in Mind | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ANTH20008 | Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ASIA20003 | Genders and Desires in Asia | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CULS20017 | Gender and Contemporary Culture | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ENGL20020 | Romanticism, Feminism, Revolution | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEND20001 | Sex, Gender and Power | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEND20003 | Genders, Bodies & Sexualities | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
GEND20006 | Sexing the Canvas: Art and Gender | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
GEND20010 | Sexuality Studies Terms and Debates | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
HPSC20023 | Sex and Gender in the Sciences | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POLS20011 | The Politics of Sex | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 3 Capstone Subject
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
GEND30003 | Gender at Work in The World | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 3 electives
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
CULS30004 | Thinking Sex | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CULS30006 | Global Cultures | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEND30005 | Gender Diversity in the Workplace | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEND30006 | Trauma, Memory, Bodies | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
GEND30007 | Trans Studies: Cultures and Communities | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST30004 | A History of Sexualities | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20090 | Gender in History, 1800 to the Present | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
LING30012 | Language and Identity | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
PHIL30052 | Race and Gender: Philosophical Issues | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POLS30015 | International Gender Politics | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SCRN30004 | Film Noir: History and Sexuality | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SPAN30001 | Gender in Hispanic Cultures | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM30013 | Gender and Crime | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Links
http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/interdisciplinary-programs/gender-studies
Last updated: 12 November 2022