Women's and Gender Studies - WOMSA23403
Stream Summary
Faculty: ARTSC - Faculty of Arts&Social Science
School: School of Humanities and Languages
Contact: hal@unsw.edu.au
Program: 3403 - Arts
Award(s):
Bachelor of Arts (Minor)
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Stream Outline
This stream structure is for students commencing prior to 2016.
Students commencing from 2016 should refer to the relevant stream version for their program. Please click here for a complete list of programs in which Women's and Gender Studies can be studied.
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:
Students commencing from 2016 should refer to the relevant stream version for their program. Please click here for a complete list of programs in which Women's and Gender Studies can be studied.
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
- ARTS1900 Gendered Worlds (6 UOC)
Level 2
- ARTS2900 Global Feminisms (6 UOC)
- ARTS2904 Dressed to Kill (6 UOC)
- ARTS2906 History of Sexuality (6 UOC)
- ARTS2908 Premodern Japan (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:
- ARTS2455 Gender in China (6 UOC)
- ARTS2464 Chinese Ideas of Beauty (6 UOC)
- ARTS2845 Sex, Human Rights & Justice (6 UOC)
- SAHT2642 Art and the Body (6 UOC)
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)
- ATSI3002 Indigenous Australia (6 UOC)
