Undergraduate
Gender Studies
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This major opens up a world of future study pathways and career options.
Career Pathways
Students cultivate skills in critical thinking around gender and sexuality which can be applied to many areas:
- Community development
- Human resource management
- Human rights and equal opportunity
- Law
- Media and journalism
- Policy planning
- Politics
- Research
- Social work
- Teaching and education
- Women’s services
Further Study
This major lays the foundation for further study options at honours and postgraduate level. Gender Studies is interdisciplinary, and so is compatible with a wide range of majors, from all other Arts majors focused on society, through to professional pathways majors in law, business, science or design. An appreciation of gender is relevant to all professional contexts because of the ways in which it shapes working life.
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Fees and scholarships
Undergraduate – Commonwealth supported students
The Annual Fee is an estimate only based on a standard annual study load of 48 points.
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Scholarships
Scholarships are available to students from a diverse range of backgrounds, including academic achievement, financial need, educational disadvantage, leadership and community service, artistic or sporting achievements, and being from a rural or remote area.
Cost of living
Undergraduate – onshore students
Annual course fees are calculated based on a standard annual study load of 48 credit points.
Scholarships
Scholarships are available to students from a diverse range of backgrounds, including academic achievement, financial need, educational disadvantage, leadership and community service, artistic or sporting achievements, and being from a rural or remote area.
Cost of living
Admission requirements
The University of Western Australia welcomes applications from international and domestic school-leavers, mature-age applicants and those with previous tertiary study. If you’re interested in studying this major, find out the admission details below.
Admission requirements
English competency
How to apply
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Course details
About the course
This major traces histories, theories and experiences of gender and its intersections with race, class and sexuality. It explores the everyday practices, institutions and cultural texts of students’ gendered lives, investigates the social and cultural legacies that inform contemporary lived experience, and serves as a reminder of the forms of dominant thinking and dissent on sexuality and identity in the past.
Quick details
- Available
- Full-time
- Part-time
- On-campus
- Semester 1, Semester 2
- Undergraduate
- MJS-GNWST
- 3 years (BA);4 years (BPhil [Hons])
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You'll learn to
- demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of feminist thought, its key shifts, major theorists and philosophical movements
- articulate the complexities of gender as a socially constructed practice situated in time and place, and mediated by other subject positions like race, class, religion, and sexuality
- contextualise the history of women’s liberation as a social movement, its links to feminist activism as a form of social justice, and the continuing relevance of linking theory to practice
- draw on feminist methods of research, writing, and thinking about gender
- utilise a discursive vocabulary to clearly articulate arguments around gender, sexuality, ideology, subjectivity, corporeality, and agency
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Why study this course?
- Develop unique skills in social-systems thinking, interdisciplinary collaboration and complex problem solving
- Cultivate enhanced relational competence
- Grow improved self-awareness
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