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Women's and Gender Studies - WOMSA23704
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Plan Outline
Plan Structure

Plan Summary

 
Faculty: ARTSC - Faculty of Arts&Social Science
 
 
School: School of Humanities
 
 
Contact: humanities@unsw.edu.au
 
 
Program: 3704 - Engineering / Arts
 
 
Award(s):
 
 
Bachelor of Arts (Minor)
 
 

Plan Outline

The Women's and Gender Studies minor stream offers students the opportunity to achieve a gender balance in their studies. It aims to produce graduates who possess a specialized knowledge of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship today, comprising the study of issues surrounding women, gender and sexualities.

The minor stream in Women’s and Gender Studies seeks to inculcate in students:
  • a knowledge of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of women, social constructions of gender (femininity and masculinity), and sexualities
  • an understanding of modern to contemporary feminist schools of thought, with an emphasis both on women’s rights, issues and activism and developments in feminist theory, scholarly methodology and ethics
  • a recognition of change and heterogeneity—in feminisms, amongst women, and in gender constructs; inter-culturally, and in the past and present
  • an awareness of how ‘race’, class and other markers of identity intersect with gender, signifying that gender cannot be studied or critiqued in isolation from other discriminatory categories of difference

Plan Structure

A student who wishes to gain a minor stream in Women's and Gender Studies must complete 36 units of credit including 6 uoc at Level 1, at least 12 uoc at Level 2 and at least 12 uoc at Level 3.

Level 1

Level 2

Women's and Gender Studies Courses:
The following courses from other subject areas can also be counted towards the Women's and Gender Studies minor stream:

Level 3

Women's and Gender Studies Courses:
The following courses from other subject areas can also be counted towards the Women's and Gender Studies minor stream:

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