Gender Studies
MA
Admissions requirements
We encourage applications from a diverse range of backgrounds. Applicants normally have an upper second-class undergraduate honours degree or comparable experience.
Duration
1 year full-time
2 years part-time
Programme description
The MA applies historical, sociological, anthropological, and political perspectives to the field of gender studies. The programme aims to cater equally for those seeking to develop an existing research interest, those in a career in which issues of gender play an important role, and those who simply wish to explore a broad range of issues concerning gender.
The MA explores the following:
- the contribution of feminist theory to a range of academic disciplines
- identity and the social construction of gender across different cultures and societies
- the structural and political aspects of gender, and
- gender as an embodied social relation and experience.
The MA is taught by a combination of seminars, tutorials and individual supervision.
Funding
You may be eligible to apply for a SYLFF Scholarship (refer to the Funding section).
Programme structure (full-time)
Core courses familiarise you with key debates on gender issues, and present feminist challenges to established disciplines as well as important feminist theories and methodological approaches. You take two core courses and two options, and you also write a dissertation.
Autumn term: you take the core courses Gender and Representation; and The Politics of Gender.
Spring term: you take two options from Anthropology of Childbirth and Reproductive Health; Embodiment and Institutionalisation of Violence, Conflict and Conciliation; Feminism and Film; Gender, Nation and Identity; Queering Popular Culture; Race Critical Theory; The Cinematic Body; and Women and Human Rights.
Summer term and vacation: you undertake work on the MA dissertation under faculty supervision.
Assessment
All courses are assessed by 5,000-word term papers. You are also required to submit a dissertation of 20,000 words.