Gender and Sexuality Minor
Gender and Sexuality Minor - Overview
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ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences |
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Gender and Sexuality Studies teaches students the interdisciplinary knowledge and skills required to analyse gender, sexuality and other categories of difference from a critical perspective. It trains students in the use of a conceptual vocabulary that facilitates critical thinking about gender relations and the role of culture in maintaining social norms. It challenges students to move beyond common sense understandings of gender and sexuality by examining the way they are constructed in different historical periods, cultural arenas and global processes.
Gender and Sexuality minor aims to develop students' capacity for thinking and communicating creatively and independently about society, identity and culture. It encourages a reflexive and questioning approach to knowledge. It draws on the disciplines of Gender Studies, and theoretical and methodological frameworks such as feminist theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory and post-structuralism.
Learning outcomes
Successful completion of this minor enables students to:
- Analyse, evaluate and apply contemporary theories of gender and sexuality.
- Use the conceptual vocabulary of gender studies to analyse contemporary issues and problems.
- Use the methods of gender to analyse the way gender and sexuality are produced in culture, including written and visual texts.
- Identify and understand interdisciplinary approaches to gender and sexuality.
- Communicate complex ideas in speech and writing.
- Reflect critically on the knowledge and skills developed in their study of Gender and Sexuality.
Requirements
This minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:
6 units from the completion of the compulsory 1000-level course:
GEND1001 – Introduction to Gender Studies (6 units)
18 units from the completion of courses from the following list:
ANTH2025 – Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (6 units)
ASIA2006 – Gender and Korean History (6 units)
ASIA2166 – East Asian Women & War (6 units)
ENGL2074 – Jane Austen History and Fiction (6 units)
GEND2016 – Life Writing: Contemporary auto/biography (6 units)
GEND2021 – Trauma, Memory and Culture (6 units)
GEND2023 – Gender, Sex and Sexuality: An Introduction to Feminist Theory (6 units)
GEND2024 – Gender in Humanities: Reading Jane Eyre (6 units)
GEND2025 – Gender, Health and Embodiment (6 units)
GEND2032 – Transforming Culture: Race, Gender and Nation (6 units)
GEND2034 – Going Public: Sex, Sexuality and Feminism (6 units)
HIST2213 – Real Men: Masculinities in Western History (6 units)
HIST2224 – Colonialism, sex, race and gender (6 units)
ITAL3014 – Women in Italian Society (6 units)
LAWS2218 – Feminist and Critical Legal Theory (6 units)
LAWS2256 – Law & Sexualities (6 units)
PHIL2111 – Global Citizens (6 units)
PHIL2101 – Democracy, Difference and Desire (6 units)
POLS2085 – Gendered Politics of War (6 units)
POLS2064 – Global Social Movements (6 units)
POLS2075 – Globalism and the Politics of Identity (6 units)
SOCY2044- Sex, gender and society: The sociology of gender (6 units)
SOCY2057- Relationships, marriage and the family (6 units)
SOCY2026 – Excessive Appetites: Sociological perspectives on addiction, drug use and gender (6 units)
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