Women's and Gender Studies - WOMSA24043

Stream Summary

Faculty: ARTSC - Faculty of Arts&Social Science

School: School of Humanities and Languages

Contact: hal@unsw.edu.au

Program: 4043 - Social Work (Honours) / Arts

Award(s):

Bachelor of Arts (Minor)

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:
  • 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

Level 2
The following courses from other subject areas can also be counted towards the Women's and Gender Studies minor stream:

Level 3
The following courses from other subject areas can also be counted towards the Women's and Gender Studies minor stream: