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Women's Studies (Interdepartmental Program)

Overview
Requirements for a Major
Optional Subjects
Entry to honours
Honours requirements
Fourth Year Honours
Subject Descriptions

Overview

Convenor: Dr J. Damousi

The Faculty of Arts offers an interdepartmental program in Women's Studies housed in the Department of History.

The program draws on a core of subjects taught by lecturers in Women's Studies and a wide range of options taught by a number of Departments. Entry to the program will usually be at second-year level. It is possible to complete a major and proceed to Combined Honours in Women's Studies.

Requirements for a Major

A major in Women's studies requires the completion of at least five subjects at second and third-year level, totalling 83.3 points, which must include:

131-220/320 Gender and Society and
131-276/376 Representations of Gender.

The remaining subjects may be chosen from those listed below. The normal prerequisite for entry to a major in Women's Studies is the completion of 50 points at first-year level (or equivalent). Note that not all subjects are available in each year. Contact the relevant Department for further information.

Optional Subjects

Department of Criminology

191-322/422 Women, Gender and Crime (First semester)

Department of English

106-295/395 Feminist Cultural Studies: Let's Go Shopping (First semester)
106-229/329 Medieval Women's Narrative (Second semester)
106-263/363 Feminist Fictions (First semester)
106-262/362 Women and Fiction in the Nineteenth Century (Second semester)

Department of Fine Arts

111-344 Making Gender: Art and Spectatorship in the West 1850-1995 (First semester)
111-251/351 Theorising the Body in Australia (First semester)
111-257/357 Film Noir: Style and History (Not available in 1996)

Department of History

131-207/307 The Body: History Sex and Gender (Second semester)
131-219/319 Changing Concepts of 'Women's Place': Europe, The United States and Australia, 1850-1980(Not available in 1996)
131-237/337 Middle Eastern Women (First semester)
131-269/369 Ritual, Gender and Community in Early Modern Europe 1450-1700 (Not available in 1996)
131-274/374 Medieval Sexuality (Not available in 1996)

Department of HPS and Anthropology

136-206/306 Gender, Science and Technology (First semester)
136-293/393 Anthropology of Gender (Second semester)

Department of Philosophy

161-228/328 Philosophy of Feminism I: Issues in Contemporary Feminist Thought (First semester)
161-241/341 French Feminisms (Second semester)

Department of Political Science

166-202/302 Politics of Sexual Reform Movements, 1900 to the Present (Second semester)
166-239/339 Sexual Politics (First semester)

Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

175-237/337 Language and Gender (First semester)

Entry to honours

The prerequisite for entry to Women's Studies combined honours is a major in Women's Studies at an overall average grade of H2A or better and admission to honours in another area of study within the Faculty. Prospective Honours Students should also complete a satsifactory thesis proposition form, available from the Convener of the Interdepartmental Program. Prospective Combined Honours students should see the convener during second semester of the year prior to entry into Honours.

Honours requirements

Combined honours in Women's Studies requires the completion of two single-semester Women's Studies seminars selected from subjects listed below (or alternative subjects arranged with the subject co-ordinator), and two subjects in the combining Department. Students are strongly advised to include the subject 'Researching and Writing in Women's Studies'. Students should enrol in the thesis subject in the Department where the thesis will be supervised.

131-408 Honours Thesis: Women's Studies

Fourth Year Honours

Department of History

131-409 Researching and Writing in Women's Studies (First semester)
131-431 Gender and History (First semester)
131-447 Gender and Social Change: Asian Pacific Perspectives (Second semester)
131-455 Gender and the Colonial Experience, Polynesia, Melanesia and Australia (Not available in 1996)

Department of English

106-436 Que(e)ries: Lesbian and Gay Theory (First semester)
106-448 Consumerism, Spectatorship and Gender: Theorising Visual Fascination (First semester)
106-417 Feminist Readings (Second semester)
106-449 Fiction, Fact and Femininity (First semester)
106-420 Women and Australian Writing Before Federation (Second semester)

Department of Fine Arts

111-431 Sexuality and the Cinema (Not available in 1996)
111-461 The Love Story (Not available in 1996)

Department of Political Science

166-434 Gender Politics (First semester)

(For further details refer to entries under relevant departments).

Subject Descriptions

131-220/320 Gender and Society (First semester)
131-276/376 Representations of Gender (Second semester)
131-409 Researching and Writing in Women'S Studies (Either semester)

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Status:          Official 1996
Date created:    Oct 10 1995
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