Overview
To be read in conjunction with the program of study requirements of the course in which you are enrolled.
Student guidance
Program of study overview
Program of study
36 Units
Level 1 - Core9 Units
Level 2 - Core13.5 Units
Level 3 - Core9 Units
Level 4 - Option4.5 Units
Aims
The major aims to:
- Educate students in the knowledge and skills required to analyse gender and related categories of difference
- Prepare students to identify and challenge injustice and exploitative social and cultural gender norms in local and international contexts
- Foster self-reflexive and ethical approaches to all areas of life, including education and professional contexts.
Learning outcomes
On completion students will be able to:
1.
Apply basic concepts and vocabulary of the interdisciplinary area of Women's and Gender Studies across multiple contexts
2.
Explain the social, political and cultural meanings of gender and its interrelation with other differences
3.
Apply Women's and Gender Studies interdisciplinary frameworks and feminist theories to a range of key areas of investigation
4.
Evaluate their own social and cultural position with respect to gender and related differences, with an enhanced ethical sense of gendered power relations
Available in courses
Bachelor of Education (Secondary)