Courses Handbook 2007 - [ Archived ]

301073 (v.4) Gender Studies 212 - Introduction to Gender

Area:

 Department of Communication and Cultural Studies

Credits:

 25.0

Contact Hours:

 3.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 

Lecture:

 1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
 

Syllabus:

 This unit is a study of theories of gender and sexuality, exploring ways in which a culture produces, maintains and transforms its understandings of gender, desire, the body, history of narrative and its relationship to cultural change. Also explores representations of gender in the contexts of modernity and postmodernity in contemporary culture and sexuality and the study of gender through theory, structures and the reading of various narrative texts. On successful completion of the units students will apply concepts learnt in Gender Studies 211 and explore their implications through a range of topics, texts and genres. Students will link gender and sexuality to changes brought about in modernity and understand that concepts of gender and sexuality are connected to other categories such as race, class, ethnicity and nationality.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 

Field of Education:

 100700 Communication and Media Studies (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

 07 - Foreign Languages, Visual and Performing Arts

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

 Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

 Grade/Mark

Availability
Availability Information has not been provided by the respective School or Area. Prospective students should contact the School or Area listed above for further information.

 
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