Gender Studies Undergraduate Information
The School of Social and Environmental Enquiry offers a range of courses in Gender Studies designed to meet the needs of both established professionals and others seeking further studies in the area of gender relations.
Undergraduate courses in Gender Studies
At the undergraduate level students can complete the interdepartmental program in Gender Studies and pure or combined honours in Gender Studies and another discipline.
The Gender Studies program centres on an interdisciplinary study of recent developments in feminist theory and on feminist critiques of existing disciplines, with an emphasis on a critical feminist engagement with Eurocentrism in gender studies. We have a particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region.
Our courses can enhance qualifications in the humanities, the social sciences and other disciplinary areas. Graduates from the Gender Studies program are now employed in such areas as education, social policy, equal opportunity, in non-governmental organizations and as consultants.
Gender Studies offers a unique opportunity from which to study a variety of topics and issues relating to gender and society at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The program places particular emphasis on recent developments in Australian and Asia-Pacific gender relations and feminisms. Subjects within the gender studies program draw on examples from Australia and the Asia-Pacific region in order to develop students' appreciation of Australia's location within the Asia-Pacific region and the implications of Australia's own colonial history. Situated within the School of Social and Environmental Enquiry, the interdisciplinary program in gender studies both draws on and extends the School's research interests.
Gender studies addresses a range of issues that include gender, family and mothering; gender and sexuality; gender and colonialism; gender and identity; gender and nationalism; and Australian, Asian, and global feminisms. The program draws on a core of subjects taught by lecturers in gender studies and a wide range of subjects available within other disciplines. These include subjects drawn from anthropology, art history, Asian studies, Australian studies, cinema studies, classical studies, criminology, development studies, English, French, history, history and philosophy of science, Islamic studies,, political science, social theory and sociology.
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