GENDER (Gender Studies)
Stage I
GENDER 101G - Gender: Global and Local (15 pts)🏳
Develops an understanding of key concepts that underlie gender analysis, and how they are expressed in politics, culture and society. Examines the meaning of gender across a range of subjects and issues on the global stage and in our everyday lives.
Stage II
GENDER 206 - Special Topic (15 pts)🏳
GENDER 207 - Special Topic (15 pts)🏳
GENDER 208 - Thinking Gender (15 pts)🏳
Interdisciplinary examination of feminist theories of gender and sexuality. Focuses on contemporary issues, debates, and practices, while grounding them in foundational theories and investigating how these issues and debates play out across disciplines and practices. Examples include the perils of identity politics, tensions between feminist and queer theories, the politics of representation, and gender justice in a globalised world.
GENDER 211 - Transgender and the Queering of Sexuality (15 pts)🏳
Considers challenges of being transgender, coming out and queering sex/gender normativity. Transgender theory is deployed to analyse and interrogate material and subjective aspects of transgender, including generational attitudinal changes and the implications for capitalism, politics, culture and society. Draws on psychoanalytic-influenced theories to question and queer human sexuality, libidinal investments in masculine domination and sex/gender essentialism.
Stage III
GENDER 300 - Special Topic (15 pts)🏳
GENDER 301 - Gender, Sex and Commodification (15 pts)🏳
Focuses on current and controversial issues at the intersections of sex and gender and their co-construction. Issues will be approached from contemporary feminist and queer theory perspectives. Various topics are critically examined in both theoretical and practical terms, such as co-constructions of gender and sexualities in pornography and advertising, technologies and reproduction, representations of transgender bodies/identities, and the selling of cybersex.
GENDER 306 - Theory Into Practice: Gender, Culture, and Social Change (15 pts)🏳
Takes a critical approach to social change by exploring the relationship between gender and other structures of inequality such as sexuality; class; ethnicity/race; and culture. Through collective readings and independent research, students will interrogate how gender inequality is re-produced, contested and/or transformed through a mix of literature, visual representations, media texts, social movements, everyday practices and interactions, and policy.
GENDER 307 - Special Topic (15 pts)🏳
GENDER 311 - Transgender and the Queering of Sexuality (15 pts)🏳
Considers challenges of being transgender, coming out and queering sex/gender normativity. Transgender theory is deployed to analyse and interrogate material and subjective aspects of transgender, including generational attitudinal changes and the implications for capitalism, politics, culture and society. Draws on psychoanalytic-influenced theories to question and queer human sexuality, libidinal investments in masculine domination and sex/gender essentialism.
Postgraduate 700 Level Courses
GENDER 700 - Critical Theories and Methods in Gender Studies (30 pts)🏳
Engages, using an interdisciplinary approach, critical theories and epistemological debates in gender studies; provides grounding in key gender studies methods and methodologies; traces the evolution in approaches to gender from early feminist scholarship to the present; requires independent research and application of theories and methods.