Conjoint: BA/BGlobalSt major in Gender Studies

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Gender Studies interrogates the relationships that impact all of us: in families, workplaces, friendships, schools, clubs, online and more. At a time when more people than ever are contesting deeply held notions of sex, gender and sexuality, it’s especially important to understand how gender intersects with other identities like class, ethnicity, and religious identity and then impacts our self-perceptions. Given this, Gender Studies examines the processes of being sexed and gendered, incorporating critical perspectives on, amongst others, the family, education, media, politics and the workplace while taking into account the impact of class and race, colonisation and coloniality. Our courses cover key issues and debates on women and femininity, men and masculinity, and LGBTQI+. Taught by leading scholars in the field, our courses address the latest developments in feminist, gender, queer and transgender theory and practice.

Students can take courses across multiple disciplines to develop an understanding of how the social and cultural constructions of masculinities and femininities function in human society, how ideas about gender and sexuality change (and how they persist) across time, place and communities, and how this matters for all of us.

Gender Studies covers a wide range of topics, such as politics, history, society, literature and education. Courses focus on areas such as gender and the home, workplace and public life, gender and violence, Pacific island cultures and gender relations, the portrayals of gender in popular culture and more.
You can also take a range of courses from other subjects in Arts, including History, Anthropology and Sociology.

Understanding the complexities of being sexed and gendered is key to improving and transforming society in all its facets: political, economic, institutional, cultural and subjective. In each of these respects, an education in Gender Studies is useful across a broad range of careers including social services, government, public relations, the legal sphere, counselling and mediation, teaching, public policy, community work, politics, media industries and more, where interventions are needed to address structural inequities that impact the health and wellbeing of individuals and society both locally and globally.

You can take a major in Gender Studies as one of your two BA majors (a double major).
You will need to pass at least 120 points (eight courses) towards each of your majors, including at least 45 points (three courses) at Stage III.

Complete 120 points comprising:

30 points for all Compulsory Courses, and
At least 15 points from Gender Studies Elective Courses, and
45 to 75 points from Additional Elective Courses

Selected courses must include at least 45 points at level 300.

Compulsory Courses

Complete 30 points for ALL of the following:

GENDER 101 - Gender: Global and Local (15 points)

GENDER 208 - Thinking Gender (15 points)

Gender Studies Elective Courses

Complete at least 15 points from the following:

GENDER 301 - Gender, Sex and Commodification (15 points)

GENDER 306 - Theory Into Practice: Gender, Culture, and Social Change (15 points)

GENDER 307 - Special Topic (15 points)

GENDER 311 - Transgender and the Queering of Sexuality (15 points)

Additional Elective Courses

Complete 45 to 75 points from the following:

EDUC 122 - Learning Sexualities (15 points)

ENGLISH 102 - Great Books: Seduction and Betrayal (15 points)

GENDER 101 - Gender: Global and Local (15 points)

ANCIENT 104 - The World of Cleopatra (15 points)

ANCIENT 216 - Sex and Power in Greece and Rome (15 points)

ANTHRO 241 - Anthropology of the Body (15 points)

ARTHIST 233 - The Art of Gender Politics (15 points)

ASIAN 200 - Asian Identities (15 points)

COMPLIT 202 - Interpreting Folktales (15 points)

GENDER 206 - Special Topic (15 points)

GENDER 207 - Special Topic (15 points)

GENDER 208 - Thinking Gender (15 points)

GENDER 211 - Transgender and the Queering of Sexuality (15 points)

GERMAN 230 - German Cinema from Murnau to Riefenstahl (15 points)

HISTORY 241 - Making Sense of the Sixties: the USA 1954-1974 (15 points)

PACIFIC 208 - Gender and the Pacific in a Globalising World (15 points)

PHIL 225 - Power, Critique and Emancipation (15 points)

SOCIOL 200 - Sociological Theory (15 points)

SOCIOL 207 - Sociology of Gender and Families (15 points)

SOCIOL 217 - Social Movements (15 points)

ANCIENT 316 - Sex and Power in Greece and Rome (15 points)

ANTHRO 354 - Anthropology of the Body (15 points)

ANTHRO 357 - Gender, Sexuality and Popular Music (15 points)

ARTHIST 333 - The Art of Gender Politics (15 points)

ASIAN 303 - Asian Identities (15 points)

COMMS 304 - Gender, Politics and the Media (15 points)

COMPLIT 303 - Interpreting Folktales (15 points)

GENDER 301 - Gender, Sex and Commodification (15 points)

GENDER 306 - Theory Into Practice: Gender, Culture, and Social Change (15 points)

GENDER 307 - Special Topic (15 points)

GENDER 311 - Transgender and the Queering of Sexuality (15 points)

HISTORY 341 - Making Sense of the Sixties: the USA 1954-1974 (15 points)

PACIFIC 307 - Gender and the Pacific in a Globalising World (15 points)

PHIL 345 - Power, Critique and Emancipation (15 points)

POLITICS 311 - Gender and Global Politics (15 points)

PSYCH 319 - Psychology and Gender (15 points)

SOCIOL 300 - Feminist, Anti-Colonial and Post-Capitalist Technofutures (15 points)

SOCIOL 315 - Law, Inequality and the State (15 points)