Women's and Gender Studies - WOMSB23961
Stream Summary
Faculty: ARTSC - Faculty of Arts&Social Science
School: School of Humanities and Languages
Contact: hal@unsw.edu.au
Program: 3961 - Engineering (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 Learning Outcomes
You should achieve the following learning outcomes upon the successful completion of the stream:
- Articulate a broad cross-cultural, historical and interdisciplinary understanding of gender and sexuality
- Explain key concepts in gender and feminist studies
- Recognise where and in what ways gender studies is applicable in various disciplines (e.g. Philosophy, History)
- Explain how the category gender intersects with other categories such as race, class and sexuality
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)
- ARTS2908 Premodern Japan (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 China (6 UOC)
- ARTS2464 Chinese Ideas of Beauty (6 UOC)
- ARTS2845 Sex, Human Rights & Justice (6 UOC)
- ARTS2875 Society and Desire (6 UOC)
- ARTS2905 Frida Kahlo (6 UOC)
- SAHT2642 Art and the Body (6 UOC)
Level 3
You may complete up to 6 UOC at Level 3
- ARTS3900 Gender & Queer Critiques (6 UOC)
- ARTS3901 Race and Gender (6 UOC)
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)
