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
- 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
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 must come 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 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)
ENGL2085 - Strange Home: Rethinking Australian Literature
ENGL2087 - Reality Effects: Truth, Representation and Narrative Form (6 units)
ENGL2116 - Televisual: Investigating Narrative Television (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)
PHIL3075 - The Philosophy of Gender: Knowledge, Power, Bodies (6 units)
POLS3134 - The Politics of Gender, Race and Identity (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)
6 units from completion of the following course(s):
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| GEND1001 | Sex, Gender and Identity: An Introduction to Gender Studies | 6 |
18 units from completion of the following course(s):
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| ANTH2025 | Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective | 6 |
| ASIA2006 | Gender in Korean History | 6 |
| ASIA 2166: East Asian Women and War | ||
| ENGL 2074: Jane Austen Hist & Fict | ||
| GEND 2016: Writing Lives: Autobiography | ||
| GEND 2021: Trauma, Memory & Culture | ||
| GEND2023 | Gender, Sex and Sexuality: An Introduction to Feminist Theory | 6 |
| GEND 2024: Gender in Humanities | ||
| GEND 2025: Gender, Health and Embodiment | ||
| GEND 2032: Multiculturalism in Australia | ||
| GEND2034 | Gender, Sex and Sexuality: Queer and Trans Theory | 6 |
| HIST 2213: Real Men | ||
| HIST 2224: Colonialism, Sex, Race, Gender | ||
| ITAL 3014: Women Italian Society | ||
| PHIL 2111: Global Citizens | ||
| PHIL 2101: Democracy, Difference & Desire | ||
| POLS 2085: Gendered Pols of War | ||
| POLS 2064: Global Social Movements | ||
| POLS 2075: Glob & Pol of Identity | ||
| SOCY 2044: Sex, Gender and Society | ||
| SOCY 2057: Marriage and Family | ||
| SOCY2026 | Excessive Appetites: Sociocultural Perspectives on Addiction and Drug Use | 6 |