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 - Going Public: Sex, Sexuality and Feminism (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
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 - Marriage and Family (6 units)
HUMN2004 - Global Vietnam: Gender, Labour and Migration (6 units)
MEAS2005 - Gender and Culture in Iran and 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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