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Gender Studies

Unit of study table (Table S)

Major

A major in Gender Studies requires 48 credit points from this table including:
(i) 6 credit points of 1000-level core unit
(ii) 6 credit points of 1000-level selective unit
(iii) 6 credit points of 2000-level core units
(iv) 6 credit points of 2000-level selective units
(v) 18 credit points of 3000-level selective units
(vi) 6 credit points of 3000-level Interdisciplinary Project units

Minor

A minor in Gender Studies requires 36 credit points from this table including:
(i) 6 credit points of 1000-level core unit
(ii) 6 credit point of 1000-level selective units
(iii) 6 credit points of 2000-level core units
(iv) 6 credit points of 2000-level selective units
(v) 12 credit points of 3000-level selective units

 

Unit of study Credit points A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites
C: Corequisites N: Prohibition

1000 level units of study

Core
GCST1602
Sex, Gender, Culture
6  
Selective
GCST1601
Culture, Power, Identity
6  
GCST1603
Screen Cultures and Gender: Film to Apps
6  
GCST1604
Race, Diversity, Difference
6  

2000 level core units of study

GCST2607
Bodies, Sexualities, Identities
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level including 6 credit points from Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Media Studies, English, History, Philosophy, Education, Political Economy, Psychology, Social Work, or Law
N WMST2007

2000 level selective units of study

GCST2605
Representing Race and Gender
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level including 6 credit points from Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Diversity Studies, Sociology, Social Policy, Anthropology, Media Studies, English, History, Philosophy, Education, Political Economy, Psychology, Social Work, Politics, Geography, International Relations, European Studies, Asian Studies, American Studies or Law.
GCST2610
Intimacy, Love and Friendship
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level including 6 credit points from Gender Studies or Cultural Studies or Sociology or Anthropology or Media Studies or English or History or Philosophy or Education or Political Economy or Psychology or Social Work or Law
N WMST2010
GCST2612
Youth and Youth Culture
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level including 6 credit points from Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Media Studies, English, History, Philosophy, Education, Political Economy, Psychology, Social Work, or Law
N WMST2012

3000 level selective units of study

GCST3604
Using Cultural Theory
6 P (12 credit points at 2000 level Gender and Cultural Studies) or (12 credit points at 2000 level Digital Cultures)
GCST3631
Gender, Communities and Belonging
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Gender Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Cultural Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Diversity Studies
GCST3633
Sexualities and Cultural Transformation
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Gender Studies
GCST3635
Bodies and Social Worlds
6  
GCST3636
Sex, Violence and Transgression

6 N GCST2604
P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Gender Studies or Cultural Studies
GCST3637
Cultural Politics of Difference
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Gender Studies or Cultural Studies
GCST3638
Nature, Culture, Power
6

P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Cultural Studies or Gender Studies

N GCST2631

RLST3605
Sex, Desire and the Sacred
6 N RLST2635
P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Studies in Religion

Interdisciplinary Project units of study

If you are completing two majors and both of your majors are from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your first major, and the Industry and Community Project unit of study for your second major.
If you are completing two majors but only one of your majors is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for that major.
If you are completing one major only and that major is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your major.
FASS3999
Interdisciplinary Impact
6 P Completion of at least 90 credit points
FASS3333
Industry and Community Project
6 C Interdisciplinary Impact in any major
P 72 credit points