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Gender Studies

Bachelor of Arts (Degree with Honours)Specialisation (formal)Year: 2025

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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.

The prerequisites for entry to fourth-year honours in Gender Studies are completion of all the requirements for the Bachelor of Arts, completion of a major in Gender Studies and an average of at least H2A (75%) in second and third-year subjects within the major, or equivalent.

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this specialisation, students should be able to:

  • Demonstrate a sound understanding of recent developments in feminist theory and practices
  • Understand the issues involved in debates about feminist knowledge
  • Develop an understanding of contemporary feminist debates about gender politics, self and subjectivity and the relationship of these debates to other areas of social inquiry.

Last updated: 14 January 2025

Structure

100 credit points

Students undertaking the pure honours stream complete:

  • GEND40006 Gender Studies Thesis Part 1, and GEND40007 Gender Studies Thesis Part 2 (50 points);
  • GEND40005 Gender Studies Research Methods (*see note below) (12.5 points);
  • three core Gender Studies honours subjects (37.5 points);

Double major students may complete one of the following combined honours streams:

  • GEND40006 Gender Studies Thesis Part 1, and GEND40007 Gender Studies Thesis Part 2 (50 points);
  • GEND40005 Gender Studies Research Methods (*see note below) (12.5 points);
  • three honours subjects in the combining discipline (37.5 points)

OR

  • thesis in the combining discipline (50 points);
  • research methodologies subject in the combining discipline (12.5 points);
  • three core Gender Studies honours subjects (37.5 points)

*Note: Students must undertake GEND40005 Gender Studies Research Methods in the first semester of their Gender Studies Thesis enrolment.

Subject Options

Compulsory Subjects:

Code Name Study period Credit Points
GEND40005 Gender Studies Research Methods
February (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
GEND40006 Gender Studies Thesis Part 1
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 25
GEND40007 Gender Studies Thesis Part 2
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 25

Elective Subjects:

Code Name Study period Credit Points
GEND90006 Gender, Globalisation and Development
April (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
 12.5
GEND40003 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
GEND40008 Queer Studies: Identities & Sexualities
March (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
GEND40009 Feminist Science and Technology Studies Not available in 2025 12.5
ANCW40015 Gender and Sexuality in Greece and Rome
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
DEVT90084 Rethinking Rights and Global Development
March (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Links

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

Last updated: 14 January 2025