Gender and Sexuality Studies teaches students the interdisciplinary knowledge and skills required to analyse gender, sexuality and other categories of difference from a critical perspective.  It trains students in the use of a conceptual vocabulary that facilitates critical thinking about gender relations and the role of culture in maintaining social norms. It challenges students to move beyond common sense understandings of gender and sexuality by examining the way they are constructed in different historical periods, cultural arenas and global processes.

Gender and Sexuality minor aims to develop students' capacity for thinking and communicating creatively and independently about society, identity and culture. It encourages a reflexive and questioning approach to knowledge. It draws on the disciplines of Gender Studies, and theoretical and methodological frameworks such as feminist theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory and post-structuralism.

Learning outcomes

Successful completion of this minor enables students to:

• Analyse, evaluate and apply contemporary theories of gender and sexuality.
• Use the conceptual vocabulary of gender studies to analyse contemporary issues and problems.
• Use the methods of gender to analyse the way gender and sexuality are produced in culture, including written and visual texts.
• Identify and understand interdisciplinary approaches to gender and sexuality.
• Communicate complex ideas in speech and writing.
• Reflect critically on the knowledge and skills developed in their study of Gender and Sexuality.

Relevant Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts (BARTS)
• Bachelor of Arts/Master of International Affairs (BARTVMIA)
• Bachelor of Pacific Studies (BPAST)