Gender Studies

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.