Postgraduate Programs
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The Gender and Cultural Studies Department at the University of Sydney is the leading centre for research into gender and culture in Australia, renowned internationally for interdisciplinary research and teaching in a wide range of cultural studies and gender studies.
With some of Australia's foremost researchers in these areas on staff, the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies provides you with critically engaging ideas and the tools to analyse a wide range of issues. The Department's academics draw on a number of theoretical and empirical research paradigms, spanning social science and humanities research methods.
The postgraduate program involves an active community of research students, with PhD and MA candidates pursuing research through a broadly based interdisciplinary program. Postgraduate students in the Department are often given opportunities to teach at undergraduate level, to work as paid researchers in projects lead by staff members, and are also encouraged to present or publish their work within and outside the university.
Postgraduate research students are normally required to attend the department’s research seminar series and postgraduate work-in-progress seminars.
Research
Research supervision in a range of fields is available through the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies. The areas of specialisation of staff members include media and cultural studies, new media, popular music, film and visual culture, popular culture and consumption, philosophy and cultural theory, ethics, biopolitics, studies in labour and work, social policy, sociology (including of health and biomedicine), rural studies, youth studies, philosophy and cultural theory, modernism, critical and comparative race studies, post colonial theory, Asian and Asian American Studies, cross-cultural studies, literature, cultural history, affect, embodiment and body technologies, masculinity, feminist theory, queer theory and alternative culture. Please select the research link for more information.
Coursework
An overview of the new Master of Cultural Studies program is available here. This is currently being updated for 2009, so please see the department's coursework page for the latest 2009 information.
Postgraduate coursework students are guided in their program by the convenor of postgraduate coursework, with the assistance of the internship officer. In addition they will be assigned a supervisor within the Department for any dissertation component and for the project component of an internship. Please see the research overview above for an indication of special areas of supervision expertise.
All coursework students are invited to attend both the research seminar series and the postgraduate work-in-progress series, and MCS students writing a dissertation are strongly encouraged to attend as many as possible.
