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Gender Studies // Structure

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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
GEND40009 Feminist Science and Technology Studies
July (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
GEND40008 Queer Studies: Identities & Sexualities
March (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
GEND90016 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Semester 2 (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

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
CULS30004 Thinking Sex
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
GEND20001 Gender, Sexuality, Power: Key Theories
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
GEND20003 Screening Genders, Bodies, Sexualities Not available in 2026 12.5
GEND20010 Technologies of Sex
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
GEND20011 Sexual Revolutions
June (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
GEND30003 Feminist and Queer Praxis
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
GEND30005 Gender Diversity in the Workplace
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
CRIM30013 Gender and Crime
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
GEND10001 Sex, Gender and Culture
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
GEND10002 Global Intersections:Gender, Race, Class
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
GEND20012 Gender, Care and Everyday Life Not available in 2026 12.5
 

Links

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

Last updated: 25 February 2026