Offered By	ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Areas of Interest	Gender Studies

Gender, Sexuality and Culture 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, Sexuality and Culture major 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 Cultural Studies, and theoretical and methodological frameworks such as feminist theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory and post-structuralism.

 

IMPORTANT NOTE:

Due to structural changes in the undergraduate program rules in 2012, the courses that make up the new 2012 majors may be different to the pre-2012 majors, and therefore some courses cannot be counted between majors.  Students are advised to contact the CASS Student Office if they are unsure about their Majors.

 

Learning outcomes

Successful completion of this major enables students 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.
• Use the methods of gender and cultural studies to analyse the way gender and sexuality are produced in culture, including written and visual texts.
• Identify and understand interdisciplinary approaches to gender, sexuality and culture.
• Communicate complex ideas in speech and writing.
• Reflect critically on the knowledge and skills developed in their study of Gender, Sexuality and Culture.

Requirements

This major requires the completion of 48 units, which must include:

A minimum of 6 units from the completion of 1000-level courses from the following list:

GEND1001 – Introduction to Gender Studies (6 units)

GEND1002 – Reading Popular Culture (6 units)

 

A maximum of 42 units from completion of courses from the following list:

ANTH2025 – Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (6 units)

ASIA2006 – Gender and Korean History (6 units)

ASIA2166 – East Asian Women & War (6 units)

ASIA3610 – Globalising Southeast Asia: Capitalism, Media, and 21st Century Cultures (6 units)

ENGL2074 – Jane Austen History and Fiction (6 units)

GEND2016 – Life Writing: Contemporary auto/biography (6 units)

GEND2021 – Trauma, Memory and Culture (6 units)

GEND2023 – Gender, Sex and Sexuality: An Introduction to Feminist Theory (6 units)

GEND2024 – Gender in Humanities: Reading Jane Eyre (6 units)

GEND2025 – Gender, Health and Embodiment (6 units)

GEND2030 – The Politics of Dance/Musicals (6 units)

GEND2031 – Cinema in Southeast Asia: Genre and Cultural Identities (6 units)

GEND2032 – Transforming Culture: Race, Gender and Nation (6 units)

GEND2034 – Going Public: Sex, Sexuality and Feminism (6 units)

HIST2213 – Real Men: Masculinities in Western History (6 units)

HIST2224 – Colonialism, sex, race and gender (6 units)

HIST2229 – Sexuality in Australian History (6 units)

ITAL3014 – Women in Italian Society (6 units)

MEAS2107 - Gender and Culture in Iran and the Middle East (6 units)

PHIL2111 – Global Citizens (6 units)

PHIL2101 – Democracy, Difference and Desire (6 units)

POLS2085 – Gendered Politics of War (6 units)

POLS2064 – Global Social Movements (6 units)

POLS2075 – Globalism and the Politics of Identity (6 units)

SOCY2044 – Sex, gender and society: The sociology of gender (6 units)

SOCY2057 – Relationships, marriage and the family (6 units)

SOCY2026 – Excessive Appetites: Sociological perspectives on addiction, drug use and gender (6 units)

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