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WGST450 Honours in Women's and Gender Studies

Credit Points 48
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study
Armidale Year Long Off Campus
Online level Level A - Internet access required
Intensive School(s)
Start Finish Attendance Notes
N/A N/A Compulsory By arrangement
Supervised Exam None
Pre-requisites permission of head of school and unit coordinator
Co-requisites
Restrictions
Notes (Continuing) Honours candidates only; offered only to pre-2005 Honours students
Combined Units None
Coordinator(s) Frances Gray (fgray@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

The Honours program in Women's and Gender Studies is made up of two strands: one full-year course work strand and a dissertation strand. The dissertation topic is settled in consultation with the unit coordinator, Dr Jane O'Sullivan. There is also an honours preliminary course for graduates who wish to proceed to honours but do not satisfy the designated prerequisites. A wide range of units can be counted towards entry requirements for honours, including those listed as electives on the Women's and Gender Studies website.

Prescribed Material
Mandatory

Text(s):

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material

The House of Breathing
ISBN: 9781863680301
Jones, G., Fremantle Arts Centre Press 2nd ed. 1992
Justice and the Politics of Difference
ISBN: 9780691023151
Young, I.M., Princeton University Press 1990
Recommended Material
Optional

Text(s):

Note: Reference material is held in the University Library - purchase is optional

Feminist Literary Theory
ISBN: 9780631197348
Eagleton, M. (ed), Blackwell 2nd ed. 1996
Note: Reference book (available from the Dixson Library, UNE)
Literatiure and Feminism: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780631184218
Morris, P., Blackwell 1993
Note: Reference book (available from the Dixson Library, UNE)
Sexing the Brain
ISBN: 9780753810231
Rogers, L., Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1999
Note: Reference book (available from the Dixson Library, UNE)
A Mind of One's Own
ISBN: 9780813366074
Antony, L. and Witt, C. (eds), Westview Press 2nd ed. 2002
Note: Reference book (available from the Dixson Library, UNE)
Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction
ISBN: 0813332958
Tong, R.P., Allen & Unwin 2nd ed. 1998
Note: Reference book (available from the Dixson Library, UNE)
Feminist Praxis: Research, Theory and Epistemology in Feminist Sociology
ISBN: 041504202X
Stanley, L. (ed), Routledge 1990
Note: Reference book (available from the Dixson Library, UNE)
Disclaimer Offer of some subjects is subject to viability. Information in these unit descriptions is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.
   

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