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WGST450 Honours in Women's and Gender Studies

Credit Points 48
Offering Not offered in 2010
Intensive School(s)
Start Finish Attendance Notes
N/A N/A Mandatory By arrangement
Supervised Exam There is no UNE Supervised Examination.
Pre-requisites permission of head of school
Co-requisites None
Restrictions None
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
Text refers to: Year Long , Off Campus
Justice and the Politics of Difference
ISBN: 9780691023151
Young, I.M., Princeton University Press 1990
Text refers to: Year Long , Off Campus
Referenced 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: Available from the Dixson Library, UNE
Text refers to: Year Long , Off Campus
Literatiure and Feminism: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780631184218
Morris, P., Blackwell 1993
Note: Available from the Dixson Library, UNE
Text refers to: Year Long , Off Campus
Sexing the Brain
ISBN: 9780753810231
Rogers, L., Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1999
Note: Available from the Dixson Library, UNE
Text refers to: Year Long , Off Campus
A Mind of One's Own
ISBN: 9780813366074
Antony, L. and Witt, C. (eds), Westview Press 2nd ed. 2002
Note: Available from the Dixson Library, UNE
Text refers to: Year Long , Off Campus
Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction
ISBN: 0813332958
Tong, R.P., Allen & Unwin 2nd ed. 1998
Note: Available from the Dixson Library, UNE
Text refers to: Year Long , Off Campus
Feminist Praxis: Research, Theory and Epistemology in Feminist Sociology
ISBN: 041504202X
Stanley, L. (ed), Routledge 1990
Note: Available from the Dixson Library, UNE
Text refers to: Year Long , Off Campus
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Assessment
Title Exam Length Weight Mode No. Words
Alternative Assessment 50% 15,000
Assessment Notes
coursework (3 core modules)
Dissertation 50% 15,000

Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. describe and implement a problem-based learning approach in their engagement with a range of interdsiciplinary gender-significant data;
  2. describe and apply a range of feminist modes of critique;
  3. identify issues of gender in existing scholarship within the disciplines informing their research;
  4. select theoretical bases and research methodologies appropriate to their chosen area of research;
  5. produce a sustained piece of research work (dissertation) in a chosen area of Women's and Gender Studies.

Graduate Attributes (GA)
Attribute Taught Assessed Practised
2 Communication Skills
True True True
3 Global Perspectives
True True True
4 Information Literacy
True True
5 Life-Long Learning
True True True
6 Problem Solving
True True True
7 Social Responsibility
True True True
8 Team Work
True True
   

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