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

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External