Bachelor of Arts in Gender, Sexuality and Culture

The Australian National University

Gender, Sexuality and Culture teaches students the interdisciplinary knowledge and skills required to analyse gender, sexuality and other categories of difference from a critical perspective. It trains students in the use of a conceptual vocabulary that facilitates critical thinking about gender relations and the role of culture in maintaining social norms. It challenges students to move beyond common sense understandings of gender and sexuality by examining the way they are constructed in different historical periods, cultural arenas and global processes.Gender, Sexuality and Culture major aims to develop students' capacity for thinking and communicating creatively and independently about society, identity and culture. It encourages a reflexive and questioning approach to knowledge. It draws on the disciplines of Gender Studies and Cultural Studies, and theoretical and methodological frameworks such as feminist theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory and post-structuralism.Learning Outcomesanalyse, evaluate and apply contemporary theories of gender, sexuality, cultureuse the conceptual vocabulary of gender and cultural studies to analyse contemporary issues and problemsuse the methods of gender and cultural studies to analyse the way gender and sexuality are produced in culture, including written and visual textsidentify and understand interdisciplinary approaches to gender, sexuality and culture

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