Gender and Sexuality Minor

Total units 24 Units

Areas of interest Gender Studies
Minor code GESX-MIN

Academic career Undergraduate

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

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills 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;
identify and understand interdisciplinary approaches to gender, sexuality and culture;
communicate complex ideas in speech and writing; and
reflect critically on the knowledge and skills developed in their study of Gender, Sexuality and Culture.

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Requirements

This minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:

6 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
GEND2023	Gender, Sex and Sexuality: An Introduction to Feminist Theory	6
GEND2034	Going Public: Sex, Sexuality and Feminism	6

A maximum of 12 units may come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code	Title	Units
ASIA2006	Gender in Korean History	6
ASIA2311	Gender and Cultural Studies in Asia and the Pacific	6
ENGL2116	Televisual: Investigating Narrative Television	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 and Drug Use	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
POLS2134	Gender and Politics	6
POLS2113	Human Rights	6

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