Gender Studies

Gender Studies considers the significance of gender and sexuality across a broad range of cultural contexts, identities and histories. The program analyses how gender intersects with crucial issues such as ageing, class, disability, ethnicity and globalisation. There is a strong emphasis on examining the sexual politics of representation and exploring the role visual cultures in disseminating ideas about gender. Subjects consider ideas about femininity, masculinity and sexuality through close engagement with an extensive variety of theorists, case studies and media. Gender Studies is transdisciplinary and draws on the diverse interest of specialists located throughout the Faculty. This enables its students to develop a unique combination of research skills drawn from both the Arts and Social Sciences. Core subjects taught at second and third year are Gender, Bodies, Borders; Hidden Histories: Gender and Testimony; Sexing the canvas: 10 Works in the NGV and The Future of Sex and Gender. The number of core subjects will be increased and diversified in 2014. These are taken together with a choice from a list of electives drawn from subjects located throughout the schools of the Faculty of Arts.

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The Graduate Diploma in Arts in this area of specialisation requires:

• minimum of one core subject (12.5 points)
• maximum of seven elective subjects (87.5 points)

Total 100 points

Core Subjects

Minimum of one core subject (12.5 points)

Elective Subjects

maximum of seven elective subjects (87.5 points)