Genders & Cultures: Comparative Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity (GEND2001)
Information valid for Semester 2, 2019
Course level
Undergraduate
Faculty
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
School
Education School
Units
2
Duration
One Semester
Delivery mode
Internal
Class hours
3 Seminar hours
Recommended prerequisite
#2 GEND1000 or GEND1010, #6 Arts or Social Science courses
Restricted
Course offering may be cancelled unless a minimum of 20 students enrol.
Assessment methods
Tutorial Participation, Tutorial Presentation, Weekly Journals, Essays x 2.
Course enquiries
Study Abroad
This course is pre-approved for Study Abroad and Exchange students.
Current course offerings
| Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
| Semester 2, 2025 (28/07/2025 - 22/11/2025) | St Lucia | In Person | Profile unavailable |
Please Note: Course profiles marked as not available may still be in development.
Course description
Aims to give insights into how gender interacts with race and ethnicity in relation to various issues and how this can be read in cultural production across a variety of genres. The course's main focus is on the notions of gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality, and their various interpretations and associated practices, in a number of cultures around the world. The course discusses the historical development of those notions in Western thought, and their various and successive reinventions by feminist thinkers and queer theoreticians, drawing on the disciplines of women's and gender studies, men's and GLBT studies, race cognisant, and anti-racism approaches and whiteness studies. The course will consider these ideas in transnational frames and contexts.
