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Debating Difference: Troubling Identity Categories
Undergraduate | LTU-GSD2DED | 2022
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 12 weeks
HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Debating Difference: Troubling Identity Categories
About this subject
- Apply interdisciplinary GSDS concepts to understanding issues and debates regarding gender and sexuality.
- Produce a sustained, complex written argument about gender and sexuality theories.
- Review gender sexuality and diversity studies theories and concepts in different historical and cultural contexts.
- Synthesise research and arguments about gender, sexuality and diversity.
- • Gender
- • Sexuality
- • Race
- • Disability
- • Bodies
- • Activism
- • Policy
Drawing on perspectives of key thinkers, we explore interpretations of how we do and make our identities in specific cultural and historical contexts. We hone skills in research, theory and policy analysis as we explore debates in popular culture, social movements, and institutions. Topics may include: power and representation; race and sexuality online; masculinities; body alteration; inequality and violence; reproduction; marginality and citizenship; and responses to discrimination, harassment and equity. The unit's blend of theory and policy analysis promotes social change, equity and justice in a range of professional and institutional spaces. The course presumes that to foster better social relations now and build a more just future, we need better connections between public debates, policy and advocacy analysis, as well as critical thinking. A sustainable society would not be possible without flexible and adaptable thinking. This subject addresses La Trobe's Sustainability Thinking Essential. This entails deep appreciation of how choices we make affects the natural, economic, social, political and cultural systems now and in the future.
- Blogs to general forum, 1,500 words. Students will write and post a blog entry to the LMS forum once a fortnight over the semester, related to a contemporary debate revolving around gender, sexuality or diversity. (30%)
- Students will develop and write an annotated bibliography and essay plan (800 word equivalent) in response to one of four questions relating to legislating families, bodily constructions, sexuality, or sites of regulating gender and sexuality. (20%)
- Research essay, 2000 words. Students will use their essay plan and annotated bibliography to produce a robust evidence-based argument in relation to their chosen essay question. (50%)
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Entry requirements
Others
Prerequisites: 60 credit points of level one subjects
Past La Trobe University students who have previously completed GSD2GES Gender and Sexuality: Contemporary Debates are ineligible to enrol in this subject.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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What to study next?
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
UndergraduateLAT-TEC-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-BUS-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-ART-DEG
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