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The Gender Studies honours program is an interdisciplinary program. The prerequisites for honours in Gender Studies is distinction or above in at least 50% of units taken in the major sequence. Because of the need to co-ordinate individual courses, students wishing to undertake the honours program must consult with the Co-ordinator of Gender Studies at the end of 3rd year or the beginning of 4th year. The course consists of three components:
1. A compulsory core unit in Gender Studies
HAF405 Gender Studies: Contexts, Conflicts, Crisis? (20%) (details below)
2. A dissertation
HAF406 or 10,000 to 12,000 words on a topic approved by the Gender Studies Co-ordinator (40%).
3. Further units taught by Gender Studies specialists in participating Schools in the program totalling no more than 40%
Students elect units that are taught as part of the honours program in other disciplines.
These units are subject to approval by the Co-ordinator of Gender Studies and by the Schools concerned.
Students should also note that all unit electives are subject to availability of teaching staff.
To view honours projects completed in the past see below - scroll down or click here.
HFA405 Gender Studies: Contexts, Conflicts, Crisis?
This two hour weekly seminar runs in semester 1, guided by the Gender Studies Coordinator. It has a notional weight of 20%. Assessment is by written work of 7000 words.
Expands the themes and issues in feminist thought raised in HAF215/315 Contemporary Feminist Thought and applies them specifically to the context of Gender Studies in the academy and to students’ proposed areas of specialist research.
The unit focuses on three recent books (chosen from the list below), as a way of raising a range of issues and demonstrating different theoretical, methodological and structural approaches and different styles of writing.
The unit looks at challenges to traditional approaches to research, particularly, but not only, feminist research, which have been made by more recent theoretical and methodological developments. The unit will draw on work to illustrate indigenous, post-modern, post-structuralist and anti-capitalist feminisms and/or queer theory.
Teaching staff: Gender Studies Coordinator
Teaching pattern: sem 1-2 hr seminar per week
Assessment: Written work totalling no more than 8,000 words
Gender Studies Honours Students since the inception of the Honours Program
(nb prior to 2004 the Gender Studies Program was titled Women's Studies)
2005
Zoe Croft
'Thesis title: Performing Girlhood: Constituting Girls Through Discourses of Success and Failure'
2004
Ella Prins
Thesis title: Pregnant with Meaning: Contemporary Maternity Magazines and their Relationship to Feminist Discourse
Carolina Valencia
Thesis Title: Where Have All the Feminists Gone? Gender, Asylum Seekers and National Identities in Australia, 1999-2004
Angela Wilson (joint Gender Studies/Political Science student)
Thesis title: "Parliamentary (Un)Privilege": Australian Female parliamentarians and the Double Shift of Career and Family
2002-03
Nadia Mahjouri (joint Women Studies/Philosophy student)
Thesis title: Techno-Maternity: Reproductive Technologies Reproduc ing Bodies
2002
Louise North
Thesis title: Women in the Margins: Abortion Discourse and the "Great" Tasmanian Abortion Debate
2001
Emma O'Neill (Sundborn)
Thesis title: Outing 'the White Mother': The Stolen Generations Debate and White Mothers
Jennifer Fitzgerald
Thesis title: A Generational War? Generationalism, Young Women and the Media in Australia
1999
Briony Alderslade
Thesis title: Hidden Discrimination, Hidden Unemployment: The Job Network and Gendered Labour Queues
1998
Aimée Heuzenroeder (long essay in Women Studies as part of an Honours program in English)
Thesis Title: New Waves: Generationalist Discourses in Australia and American Feminisms
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