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Gender Studies
Graduate Certificate in ArtsSpecialisation (formal)Year: 2025
Gender Studies
Contact information
Coordinator
Semester 1
Associate Professor Kalissa Alexeyeff
Email: k.alexeyeff@unimelb.edu.au
Semester 2
Dr CQ Quinan
Email: c.quinan@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
Contact Stop 1
Future students:
https://study.unimelb.edu.au
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 specialisation, students should be able to:
- 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
- Communicate their knowledge effectively in a variety of oral and written formats.
Last updated: 3 February 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 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEND90006 | Gender, Globalisation and Development | April (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
DEVT90084 | Rethinking Rights and Global Development | March (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 |
---|---|---|---|
INDG20003 | Aboriginal Women: Activism & Leadership | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
ANTH20008 | Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CULS30004 | Thinking Sex | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ENGL20020 | Romanticism, Feminism, Revolution | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
GEND20001 | Gender, Sexuality, Power: Key Theories | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEND20003 | Screening Genders, Bodies, Sexualities | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEND20008 | Feminist Futures: Theory and Activism | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEND20010 | Technologies of Sex | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEND20011 | Sexual Revolutions | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
GEND30003 | Gender at Work in The World | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEND30006 | Trauma, Memory, Bodies | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEND30007 | Trans Studies: Cultures and Communities | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST30004 | A History of Sexualities | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
PHIL30052 | Race and Gender: Philosophical Issues | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
POLS20011 | The Politics of Sex | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
POLS30015 | International Gender Politics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SCRN30004 | Film Noir: History and Sexuality | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
SPAN30001 | Gender in Hispanic Cultures | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
HPSC20023 | Sex and Gender in the Sciences | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
INDG20004 | Racial Literacy: Indigeneity & Whiteness | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
ANTH20001 | Keeping the Body in Mind | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
GEND30005 | Gender Diversity in the Workplace | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
CRIM30013 | Gender and Crime | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
HIST20090 | Gender in History, 1800 to the Present | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Links
http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/interdisciplinary-programs/gender-studies
Last updated: 3 February 2025