Graduate Diploma in Arts major in Gender Studies

A major is the main subject area that you choose to study in your degree. You will study courses up to Stage III level in this subject.

As well as gaining skills, knowledge and experience in your chosen area, you will learn how to think creatively, solve problems and communicate effectively, all essential skills to help you thrive in any career you choose.

Please see the main programme link below to see further details for the programme.

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.

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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.

Complete 120 points comprising:

45 points for Bachelor of Arts major in Gender Studies Stage III Courses, and
At least 15 points from Additional Courses from the Bachelor of Arts major in Gender Studies, and
0 to 60 points from Courses from the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Schedules

Selected courses must include at least 75 points at level 300 or higher.

Bachelor of Arts major in Gender Studies Stage III Courses

Complete 45 points comprising:

At least 15 points from Group 1 Elective Courses, and
0 to 30 points from Group 2 Elective Courses

Group 1 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)

Group 2 Elective Courses

Complete 0 to 30 points from the following:

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)

Additional Courses from the Bachelor of Arts major in Gender Studies

Complete at least 15 points from the following:

GEND-BA - Bachelor of Arts major in Gender Studies (120 points)

Courses from the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Schedules

Complete 0 to 60 points from the following:

BA - Bachelor of Arts (360 points)

BA(Hons) - Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (120 points)

Please note that while regulations and programme rules for future academic years may be displayed or made available in advance, they remain subject to change. Official, final approved programme regulations for the upcoming academic year will be available when the University Calendar is published in late October of the preceding year. Any information available prior to Calendar publication should be treated as provisional.

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