Women's and Gender Studies - WOMSA23931
Stream Summary
Faculty: ARTSC - Faculty of Arts&Social Science
School: School of Humanities
Contact: humanities@unsw.edu.au
Program: 3931 - Advanced Science/Arts
Award(s):
Bachelor of Arts (Minor)
Information valid for students commencing 2013.
Students who commenced prior to 2013 should go to the Handbook's Previous Editions
Stream 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:
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
Stream 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
- ARTS1900 Gendered Worlds (6 UOC)
Level 2
Women's and Gender Studies Courses:
- ARTS2900 Global Feminisms (6 UOC)
- ARTS2904 Dressed to Kill (6 UOC)
- ARTS2906 History of Sexuality (6 UOC)
- ARTS2908 Premodern Japan (6 UOC)
The following courses from other subject areas can also be counted towards the Women's and Gender Studies minor stream:
- ARTS2037 Women's Writing (6 UOC)
- ARTS2193 Gender Relations in Australia (6 UOC)
- ARTS2845 Sex, Human Rights & Justice (6 UOC)
- ARTS2870 Global Citizens (6 UOC)
- ARTS2875 Society and Desire (6 UOC)
- ARTS2877 Technologies, Culture, Society (6 UOC)
- ARTS2905 Frida Kahlo (6 UOC)
- SAHT2642 Art, Gender, Sexuality & Body (6 UOC)
- SAHT2643 Pornography, Art and Politics (6 UOC)
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:
- ARTS3219 Japanese Society (6 UOC)
- ARTS3287 The Family in Europe (6 UOC)
- ARTS3874 Culture and Human Rights (6 UOC)
- ARTS3875 Researching Culture & Society (6 UOC)
- ATSI3002 Indigenous Australia (6 UOC)
