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Major: Gender Studies

Major details:

Gender Studies

GEN01

Department:
Department of Sociology
Faculty:
Faculty of Arts

This major must be completed as part of an award. The general requirements for the award must be satisfied in order to graduate.

Requirements for the Major:

Completion of a minimum of 24 credit points including the following prescribed units:

Credit points

100 level

Required
3
Foundations in Gender Studies (3)
 
Required
3cp from
 
Identity and Difference: Introduction to Anthropology (3)
 
 
Human Biology (3)
 
 
Manga and Japanese Contemporary Culture (3)
 
 
Language, Culture and Communication (3)
 
 
Australian Media (3)
 
3
Passion, Rebellion and Identity in Popular Music (3)
 

200 level

Required
3
Reading Gender in Everyday Life (3)
 
Required
3cp from
 
Women and Gender in the Ancient World (3)
 
 
Food Across Cultures (3)
 
 
Science of Sex (3)
 
 
Gender, Sexuality, Culture: Queer Theory (3)
 
 
Rethinking Health: Critical Medical Studies (3)
 
 
Gothic Visions: From Sublime to Suburban Gothic (3)
 
 
The Ecological Humanities: Australians and their Environment (3)
 
 
Sex, Race and Rock (3)
 
 
The Ecological Humanities: Australians and their Environment (3)
 
 
Manga, Anime and Representation of Identity (3)
 
 
Travel Writing: Journeys and Visitations (3)
 
 
War and Peace in World History (3)
 
 
Currency Lasses and Chesty Bonds: Gender in Australian History (3)
 
 
Travel, Tourism and Cultural Production (3)
 
 
Contemporary Issues in Australian Politics: Race, Nation, Class and Gender (3)
 
 
Gender and the State (3)
 
 
Power, Difference and Recognition (3)
 
 
Sociology of Media (3)
 
3
I Shop, Therefore I Am: Global Consumer Society (3)
 

300 level

Required
either
or
 
Gendered Intersections (3)
C
3
'Family Values' in the 21st Century (3)
C
Required
9cp from
 
Women and Gender in the Ancient World (3)
 
 
Body, Place and Postcolonial Experience (3)
 
 
Culture, Health and Sexuality in the Developing World (3)
 
 
Changing Bodies, Changing Selves (3)
 
 
Gender and Education (3)
 
 
Feminism and Literature (3)
 
 
Asia-Pacific Development (3)
 
 
Naughty Boys, Bad Girls: Gender and Discipline at Home and at School (3)
 
 
Gender and Crime (3)
 
 
Asia-Pacific Development (3)
 
 
Family Law (3)
 
 
Discrimination and the Law (3)
 
 
Criminology (3)
 
 
Law and Sexuality (3)
 
 
Family Law (3)
 
 
Discrimination and the Law (3)
 
 
Advanced Topics in Ciminal Justice (3)
 
 
Pleasure and Danger: Sex and the Law (3)
 
 
Media Identities (3)
 
 
Writing the Past, Telling the Future (3)
 
 
Telling True Stories 1 (3)
 
 
Women Making History (3)
 
 
Gender, Race and Identity (3)
 
 
The Psychology of Human Relationships (3)
 
 
Philosophy of Psychoanalysis (3)
 
 
Women in Russian Culture (3)
 
 
Love, Sex and Friendship (3)
 
 
Naughty Boys, Bad Girls: Gender and Discipline at Home and at School (3)
 
 
Activism and Social Change (3)
 
 
Social Change Placement (3)
 
9
Social Change Placement (6)
 

TOTAL CREDIT POINTS REQUIRED TO SATISFY THIS MAJOR

24
Note:
Units marked with a C are Capstone units.