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Courses - Faculty of Arts
Women's Studies
Stage I
Gender and the Culture of Everyday Life
Gender is a significant marker in the understanding of contemporary life and experience. Focuses on four themes: home; work; consumption and leisure; and public worlds to explore how gender shapes and is shaped by everyday actions and encounters. These themes are explored in terms of current issues and of how the future is being shaped by the trends of today.
Gender and Representation
The proliferation of images and information through the mass media and other cultural forms is intrinsic to contemporary experience and shapes our understanding of gender. Considers a range of artistic and popular cultural representations, such as fashion, television, literary fiction, film and poetry, and asks what these might tell us about current understandings of gender and sexuality.
Stage II
Introduction to Feminist Theory
A theoretical foundation for feminist studies which examines major traditions and key thinkers from modern second wave to contemporary feminism. Readings and discussions will be focused around a series of themes, issues and concepts such as power, sex, gender, work, home, nation, care, embodiment, identity, subjectivity, reproduction and consumption. Case studies will be used to enable students to critically reflect on issues in light of their own experiences.
Prerequisite: Any 30 points in BA courses or Certificate in Women's Studies
Gender and Visual Culture in the Pacific
Issues of gender and migration in the contemporary Pacific. Considers the formation of Pacific Islands diaspora as well as the ways that visual culture, including popular film, media and a range of art forms, have developed and impacted on Pacific Islands cultures.
Prerequisite: Any 30 points in BA courses or Certificate in Women's Studies
Women's Texts of Experience
Explores a variety of ways in which women create texts or stories based on the experience of their lives, and how these ‘stories' help them reflect upon that experience. A range of poetry, fiction, theoretical writing, film, visual art, photography, and music from different cultures is studied.
Prerequisite: Any 30 points in BA courses or Certificate in Women's Studies
Special Topic
Prerequisite: Any 30 points in BA courses or Certificate in Women's Studies
Stage III
Gender and Colonialism in the Pacific
The transformation of gender relations in the Pacific since the inception of European contact and the colonial process. Emphasis will be on the gendered nature of colonialism both in terms of how it framed the process, as well as how the experience was lived.
Prerequisite: Any 30 points at Stage II
Femme Fatale: Rethinking Film Noir
Considers the femme fatale and masculine detective figures found in classic film noir of the 1940s as well as cinematic and theoretical revisitings of noir from the 1970s onwards. Topics include noir form and style; the voice-over, narration and desire; the homosexual subtext; genre and the Hollywood production system; and the place of noir in classical film theory.
Prerequisite: Any 30 points at Stage II
Special Topic
Prerequisite: 30 points in BA courses
Special Topic
Prerequisite: Any 30 points at Stage II
Postgraduate Courses
Contemporary Debates in Feminist Theory
The focus will be on the politics of difference, including how feminist theory has dealt with notions of ethnicity, class and gender, identity politics, nationalism and issues of post-coloniality.
To complete this course students must enrol in WOMEN 700 A and B
Research Design in Women's Studies
Debates on feminist research methodologies provide a theoretical framework for considering issues central to the design of a research project, including problem formation, research ethics and accountability, literature review, development of appropriate methods, analysis and report writing. Students will formulate and pilot an individual or joint research project.
Special Study
To complete this course students must enrol in WOMEN 702 A and B, or WOMEN 702
Special Topic
Special Topic
Dissertation
To complete this course students must enrol in WOMEN 785 A and B, or WOMEN 785
Dissertation
To complete this course students must enrol in WOMEN 792 A and B, or WOMEN 792
Thesis
Prerequisite: A BA(Hons) in Women's Studies with at least Second Class Honours, First Division, or equivalent
To complete this course students must enrol in WOMEN 796 A and B
Research Portfolio
To complete this course students must enrol in WOMEN 797 A and B
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