Histories of Gender and Sexuality
UndergraduateMAQ-MHIX33022027
Course information for 2027 intake
Historians have used changing debates and methods to study gender and sexuality. Compare discourse, sources and methods. See how ideas of identity and power influence interpretations of the past.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 18 July 2027
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Start dates
- 26 July 2027
- Price from
- $2,355
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Histories of Gender and Sexuality
About this subject
On successful completion, a student will be able to
- Critically analyse the ways gender and sexuality have been constructed, regulated, and represented across diverse historical contexts in the modern world.
- Evaluate historiographical debates and methodological approaches to the history of gender and sexuality, including the impact of archives, silences, and power dynamics on historical narratives.
- Apply theoretical frameworks to interpret primary and secondary sources with a gendered lens and construct well-supported historical arguments.
- Reflect on key concepts and debates in the history of gender and sexuality to develop critical tools for analysing gender and sexuality in both past and present contexts.
- A week-by-week guide to the topics you will explore in this subject will be provided in your study materials
Sexuality and gender are two of the oldest forces shaping human experience. This unit examines histories of gender and sexuality in the modern world, interrogating the ways that gender and sexuality have been constructed, regulated, and represented over time, while also asking how these histories have been written, debated, and theorised. Students will focus on historiographical debates and the methodological questions that have shaped gender history: how have historians approached the study of gender and sexuality? What theoretical frameworks have shaped the field? And how do archives, silences, and power dynamics affect the writing of these histories? Students will gain an understanding of gender and sexuality as historical categories and knowledge of the ways in which gender and sexuality have helped to shape significant intellectual, political and social developments in history. Students will develop understandings of the complexity of gender and sexuality in the past, in order to develop critical tools for the analysis of sex and gender in the present.
- Historiography report (25%)
- Archival research report (25%)
- Podcast (50%)
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Entry requirements
Prior study
You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:
one of
Others
Pre-requisite-120cp at 1000 level or above
NCCW (2020 and onwards)
MHIS3302 Histories of Gender and Sexuality
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
UndergraduateMAQ-HIS-DEG
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