Women's and Gender Studies

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What is Women's Studies? (Note this major will be renamed Gender Studies in 2010)

Women's Studies is an exciting and continuously developing area that has been the focus of theoretical and practical innovation for many years.  The University of Queensland has been at the forefront of these developments in Australia, and offers many interesting areas of study.  It is a specialised field that brings innovative theory and research techniques to the study of women's lives, their status in society, and the dilemmas and contradictions in gender relations and sexualities.

Study Opportunities:

Major Convenor: Professor Carole Ferrier (Please contact Carole Ferrier for a copy of the Women's Studies Handbook)

Major Course Structure (hyperlinked to view semester offerings).

Graduation Checklist for single major, including: Program Structure, Graduation Checks, Major Requirements (scroll down to Women's Studies), and Official Program Rules for the BA).

For more information about this plan, see the University's Programs and Courses website.

Undergraduate courses focusing on cultural constructions of the feminine, as well as women's writing are available, and Research Higher Degrees can be undertaken with the appropriate supervision.

The Women's Studies major is drawn from a range of courses offered by this School and the Schools of Political Science and International Studies; History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics; Music; and Social Science.