Gender, Sexuality and Culture teaches students the interdisciplinary knowledge and skills to analyse gender, sexuality and other categories of difference critically. It trains students to use a conceptual vocabulary that facilitates critical thinking about the role of culture, society and economy in maintaining gender norms and hierarchies. It challenges students to move beyond common sense understandings of gender and sexuality by examining how they are constructed in different historical periods, cultural contexts and global processes.
Gender, Sexuality and Culture major develops students' capacity for thinking and communicating creatively and independently about society, identity and power. It encourages a reflexive and questioning approach to knowledge. It draws on the disciplines of Gender Studies, Cultural Studies and Sociology. Students will have opportunities to learn about diverse theoretical and methodological frameworks such as those represented by feminist theory, queer theory, critical race studies, social constructivism, social and cultural studies of family/kinship and political economy.
Learning Outcomes
- 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.
Relevant Degrees
Requirements
The Gender and Sexuality Minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:
6 units from the completion of the following course(s):
GEND1001 Sex, Gender and Identity: An Introduction to Gender Studies (6 units)
GEND1002 Reading Popular Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Studies (6 units)
A minimum of 6 units from completion of courses from the following list:
GEND2023 Gender, Sex and Sexuality: An Introduction to Feminist Theory (6 units)
GEND2034 Gender, Sex and Sexuality: Queer and Trans Theory (6 units)
A minimum of 6 units from the completion of courses from the following list:
ANTH2017 Culture, Social Justice and Aboriginal Society Today (6 units)
ASIA2006 Gender in Korean History (6 units)
ASIA2099 Social Power in China: Family to Family-State (6 units)
ASIA2311 Gender and Cultural Studies in Asia and the Pacific (6 units)
DEMO3010 Perspectives on Sex, Gender and Population (6 units)
ENGL2116 Televisual: Investigating Narrative Television (6 units)
ENGL2085 Strange Home: Rethinking Australian Literature (6 units)
ENGL2087 Reality Effects: Truth, Representation and Narrative Form (6 units)
ENGL2222 Great Writers: Special Topics in Gender, Authorship and History (6 units)
GEND2022 Jane Austen History and Fiction (6 units)
GEND2035 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (6 units)
GEND2036 Excessive Appetites: Sociocultural Perspectives on Addiction and Drug Use (6 units)
GEND2037 Young People, Sex and Consent (6 units)
GEND3001 Posthuman Bodies (6 units)
GEND3016 Writing Lives - Autobiography in Fiction and Memoirs (6 units)
GEND3057 Relationships, Marriage and Family (6 units)
HUMN2004 Global Vietnam: Gender, Labour and Migration (6 units)
MEAS2005 Gender and Culture in the Middle East(6 units)
PASI3002 Gender and Sexuality in the Pacific (6 units)
POLS3134 The Politics of Gender, Race and Identity (6 units)
PHIL3075 The Philosophy of Gender: Knowledge, Power, Bodies (6 units)
SOCY3001 Research Internship (6 units)
SOCY3005 Quantitative Projects for Inclusion and Diversity (6 units)
SOCY3007 Understanding Neoliberalism (6 units)
SOCY3167 Populism: Gender, Race, Class and Backlash (6 units)
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