Gender, Sexuality and Culture Major

Total units 48 Units

Areas of interest Gender Studies
Major code GEND-MAJ

Academic career Undergraduate

Gender, Sexuality and Culture 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, Sexuality and Culture major 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 Cultural Studies, and theoretical and methodological frameworks such as feminist theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory and post-structuralism.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

Due to structural changes in the undergraduate program rules in 2012, the courses that make up the new 2012 majors may be different to the pre-2012 majors, and therefore some courses cannot be counted between majors. Students are advised to contact the CASS Student Office if they are unsure about their Majors.

Learning outcomes

Successful completion of this major enables students to:

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

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Requirements

This major requires the completion of 48 units, which must include:

• A maximum of 12 units of courses at 1000 level
• A minimum of 6 units of courses at 3000 level

12 units from completion of the following course(s):

Code	Title	Units
GEND1001	Sex, Gender and Identity: An Introduction to Gender Studies	6
GEND1002	Reading Popular Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Studies	6

A minimum of 6 units must come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code	Title	Units
ASIA2311	Gender and Cultural Studies in Asia and the Pacific	6
GEND2023	Gender, Sex and Sexuality: An Introduction to Feminist Theory	6
GEND2034	Going Public: Sex, Sexuality and Feminism	6

A minimum of 12 units must come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code	Title	Units
ASIA2006	Gender in Korean History	6
ASIA2092	Gender, Labour and Capitalism in East Asia	6
ENGL2116	Televisual: Investigating Narrative Television	6
ENGL3037	Literature, Law and Human Rights	6
GEND2021	Trauma, Memory and Culture	6
GEND2024	Gender in Humanities: Reading Jane Eyre	6
GEND2035	Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective	6
GEND2036	Excessive Appetites: Sociocultural Perspectives on Addiction, Drug Use and Gender	6
GEND2057	Relationships, Marriage and Family	6
GEND2064	Global Social Movements	6
GEND2074	Jane Austen History and Fiction	6
GEND2085	Gendered Politics of War	6
GEND2101	Democracy, Difference and Desire	6
GEND2107	Gender and Culture in Iran and the Middle East	6
GEND2111	Global Citizens	6
HIST2213	Real Men: Masculinities in Western History	6
HIST2229	Sexuality in Australian History	6
POLS2113	Human Rights	6

A minimum of 6 units must come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code	Title	Units
GEND3001	Posthuman Bodies	6
GEND3016	Writing Lives: Autobiography in Fiction and Memoir	6
GERM3050	Gender in German Culture: From Goethe to Trans*	6
PASI3002	Gender and Sexuality in the Pacific	6

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