Gender and Cultural Studies
Postgraduate Coursework 2008 Overview
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Gender and Cultural Studies allows students to critically engage with the changing representations and meanings of gender and culture in our everyday world. The Department is globally renowned for its interdisciplinary research and teaching in feminist, gender and cultural studies, and has some of Australia's foremost theorists in gender and culture on staff. Academics draw on a number of theoretical and empirical research paradigms, spanning social science and humanities research methods.
The Department also has a vibrant research culture where students are actively involved in research seminars and are frequently offered the chance to contribute to teaching and collaborative research projects. The program profoundly enriches study and work in the humanities and social sciences as well as law, the physical sciences, government and education.
In 2008, the new Master of Cultural Studies program focuses on how to effectively research and analyse cultural forms and practices, including questions raised around identities, communities, representation and the forms and practices of everyday life. Units offer a range of critical perspectives on culture, providing students with tools to analyse how culture is produced, circulated and changed.
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Pathways are a strategy for organising a program of study directed towards a specific area of interest or future employment. The pathway examples shown below are suggestions only. Students can design their own pathway in consultation with the Program Coordinator.
- Cultural Studies in Gender is designed with the interests of current and future researchers working in the public service and media in mind, and also students interested in gender and women's studies.
- Media, Society and Culture is designed with the interests of current and future teachers of 'Society & Culture' and other Cultural Studies subjects at secondary and tertiary level in mind. This stream is also addressed to students interested in media and cultural studies.
- Culture, Diversity and Difference is designed to cater for the interests of current and future researchers on cultural groups and cultural difference, including multiculturalism, race and ethnicity, particularly within the public service and for research corporations. The pathway will also be relevant to students interested in cultural diversity issues.
- Cultural Debates. This pathway provides an avenue for those students who have a personal, rather than vocational or other professional, interest in returning to or continuing with further education. It assembles a range of units on crucial cultural issues and survey-style courses designed to put those current issues in a scholarly context.
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Cultural
Debates
Students will choose four of the following, including at least one GCST/WMST units.
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Cultural
Studies in Gender
Students will choose four of the following, including at least two GCST/WMST units.
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Culture,
Diversity and Difference
Students will choose four of the following units. Students taking this pathway are also invited to specialise their program by including among their electives a combination of any two approved postgraduate units from within a single discipline in the School of Languages and Cultures. |
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Media,
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