Faculty of Arts Gender studies

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1. Prerequisites
2. Requirements for a major
3. Gender studies subjects
4. For more information
5. Honours entry
6. Honours requirements
    6.1. Pure honours
    6.2. Combined honours
Subject Lists
    Fourth-year subjects

Convener: Associate Professor Maila Stivens

Gender studies (formerly women's studies) offers a unique opportunity from which to study a variety of topics and issues relating to gender and society. The program places particular emphasis on recent developments in Australian and Asia-Pacific gender relations and feminisms. Subjects within gender studies 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 one of the leading history departments in Australia, the interdisciplinary program in gender studies both draws on and extends the department'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 areas of study. These include subjects drawn from anthropology, art history, Australian studies, cinema studies, criminology, English, French, history, history and philosophy of science, Islamic studies, linguistics and applied linguistics, philosophy, political science, social theory and sociology.

1. Prerequisites

The gender studies program commences at either first or second year. The general prerequisite for entry at second year is the completion of 50 points of first year in any area of study within the Faculty of Arts.

2. Requirements for a major

A major in gender studies usually consists of nine 12.5-point subjects, totalling 112.5 points. It comprises:

• two first-year subjects from any area of study, one of which may be 131-116 Sex, Gender and Power: An Introduction (25 points); and

• seven second/third-year subjects (87.5 points), which must include:

  • two subjects from the list of core subjects below; and

  • five subjects from the list of optional subjects below.

3. Gender studies subjects

Students must take two core subjects at second/third year toward their gender studies major.

Students must take five optional subjects at second/third year toward their gender studies major.

Students should also note that they must consult the relevant area of study entries in the Handbook to make sure that they meet the prerequisites, if any, for entry to these subjects.

4. For more information

Associate Professor Maila Stivens
Department of History
Third Floor, John Medley Building
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
Tel. +61 3 8344 5970
Email: m.stivens@unimelb.edu.au
Web: http://www.gender-studies.unimelb.edu.au

* Details of subjects offered by the Key Centre for Women's Health are available at http://www.kcwh.unimelb.edu.au/postgraduate.html

5. Honours entry

The prerequisites for entry to fourth-year honours in gender studies are:

• completion of all the requirements for the BA; and

• completion of a major in gender studies; and

• an average grade of H2B or higher over the second/third-year subjects within the major.

Prospective honours students are required to consult with the convener of gender studies during the second semester of the year prior to honours entry. At this time they must complete a satisfactory thesis proposition form, available from the convener.

6. Honours requirements

6.1. Pure honours

Students undertaking pure honours in gender studies must complete:

• 131-506 Gender Studies Thesis or 131-507 Gender Studies Thesis (MYE) (37.5 points); and

• one compulsory subject 131-452 Representations of Gender (12.5 points) or 131-540 Reading Course; and

• four honours subjects in gender studies selected from the list below (or alternative fourth-year level subjects arranged with the gender studies coordinator) (50 points).

6.2. Combined honours

Students undertaking combined honours in gender studies and another area of study must complete:

• 131-506 Gender Studies Thesis or 131-507 Gender Studies Thesis (MYE) (37.5 points); and

• 131-452 Representations of Gender or 131-540 Reading Course; and

• one honours subject in gender studies selected from the list below (or alternative fourth-year level subjects arranged with the gender studies coordinator) (25 points); and

• three honours subjects in the combined area of study (37.5 points).

or

• honours thesis in the combined area of study (37.5 points); and

• two honours subjects in the combined area of study (25 points); and

• 131-452 Representations of Gender or 131-540 Reading Course; and

• two honours subjects in gender studies selected from the list below or alternative subjects arranged with the gender studies coordinator (37.5 points).

Fourth-year subjects

131-506 Gender Studies Thesis
131-507 Gender Studies Thesis (MYE)

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