Women's and Gender Studies - WOMSB24045
Stream Summary
Faculty: ARTSC - Faculty of Arts&Social Science
School: School of Humanities and Languages
Contact: hal@unsw.edu.au
Program: 4045 - Social Work (Honours) / Arts
Award(s):
Bachelor of Arts (Minor)
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Stream Outline
THIS STREAM IS FOR STUDENTS COMMENCING FROM 2016.
The Women's and Gender Studies minor stream provides you the opportunity to develop an understanding of issues such as social constructions of gender (femininity and masculinity) and sexualities, contemporary feminist schools of thought, ‘race’, class and other markers of identity intersect with gender, and women’s rights, issues and activism and developments in feminist theory, scholarly methodology and ethics.
The Women's and Gender Studies minor stream provides you the opportunity to develop an understanding of issues such as social constructions of gender (femininity and masculinity) and sexualities, contemporary feminist schools of thought, ‘race’, class and other markers of identity intersect with gender, and women’s rights, issues and activism and developments in feminist theory, scholarly methodology and ethics.
Stream Structure
If you wish to gain a minor stream in Women's and Gender Studies you must complete 24 units of credit including 6 UOC at Level 1, at least 12 UOC at Level 2 and optionally up to 6 UOC at Level 3. If you complete 6 UOC at Level 1 and 18 UOC at level 2 you will have completed the minor.
Level 1
You must complete the following Level 1 core course:
- ARTS1900 Gendered Worlds (6 UOC)
Level 2
You must complete at least 12 UOC at Level 2:
- ARTS2900 Global Feminisms (6 UOC)
- ARTS2904 Dressed to Kill (6 UOC)
- ARTS2906 History of Sexuality (6 UOC)
- ARTS2909 Women in Southeast Asia (6 UOC)
- ARTS2910 Philosophy and the Body (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)
- ARTS2455 Gender in Contemporary China (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)
Level 3
You may complete up to 6 UOC at Level 3
The following courses from other subject areas can also be counted towards the Women's and Gender Studies minor stream:
- ARTS3218 Japanese History (6 UOC)
- ARTS3287 The Family in Europe (6 UOC)
- ARTS3367 Race and Gender (6 UOC)
- ARTS3874 Culture and Human Rights (6 UOC)
- ARTS3875 Researching Culture & Society (6 UOC)
