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 and society;
- use the conceptual vocabulary of gender studies, cultural studies and social theory to analyse contemporary issues and problems;
- use the methods of gender studies, cultural studies and sociology to analyse the way gender and sexuality are produced, including written and visual texts;
- identify and understand interdisciplinary approaches to gender, sexuality, culture and society;
- understand and communicate complex ideas about gender in spoken and written form;
- engage with and communicate an informed critical perspective on contemporary theories of gender and sexuality.
Relevant Degrees
Requirements
The Gender, Sexuality and Culture Major requires the completion of 48 units, of which:
A maximum of 18 units may come from the completion of 1000-level courses;
A minimum of 18 units must come from completion of 3000-level courses.
The 48 units must consist of:
12 units from the completion of the following courses:
GEND1001 - Sex, Gender and Identity: An Introduction to Gender Studies
GEND1002 - Reading Popular Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Studies
6 units from the completion of a course from the following list:
GEND2023 - Gender, Sex and Sexuality: An Introduction to Feminist Theory
GEND2034 - Going Public: Sex, Sexuality and Feminism
30 units from the completion of courses from the following list:
ANTH2017 - Culture, Social Justice and Aboriginal Society Today
ASIA2006 - Gender in Korean History
ASIA2099 - Social Power in China: Family to Family-State
ASIA2311 - Gender and Cultural Studies in Asia and the Pacific
ENGL2085 - Strange Home: Rethinking Australian Literature
ENGL2087 - Reality Effects: Truth, Representation and Narrative Form
ENGL2116 - Televisual: Investigating Narrative Television
ENGL2222 - Great Writers: Gender, Authorship and History
GEND2022 - Jane Austen History and Fiction
GEND2035 - Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
GEND2036 - Excessive Appetites: Sociocultural Perspectives on Addiction and Drug Use
GEND2037 - Young People, Sex and Consent
GEND3001 - Posthuman Bodies
GEND3016 - Writing Lives: Autobiography in Fiction and Memoir
GEND3057 - Marriage and Family
HUMN2004 - Global Vietnam: Gender, Labour and Migration
MEAS2005 - Gender and Culture in Iran and the Middle East
PASI3002 - Gender and Sexuality in the Pacific
PHIL3075 - The Philosophy of Gender: Knowledge, Power, Bodies
POLS3134 - The Politics of Gender, Race and Identity
SOCY3001 - Research Internship
SOCY3005 - Quantitative Projects for Inclusion and Diversity
SOCY3007 - Understanding Neoliberalism
SOCY3167 - Populism: Gender, Race, Class and Backlash
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