Gender and Sexuality Studies (Graduate Certificate)
Postgraduate
In London
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
London
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Duration
1 Year
Our Graduate Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies offers you the opportunity to develop your knowledge of gender and sexuality studies and enhance your independent study skills. You will learn to critique existing research, examine how gendered experiences have changed over time, and discuss and evaluate competing theories relating to gender and sexuality. You will also consider how gender and sexuality are represented, and operate, within relevant humanities or social sciences literatures.
On successful completion of the Graduate Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies you will be eligible to progress your studies on our MA Gender, Sexuality and Culture or MSc Gender, Sexuality and Society.
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About this course
This Graduate Certificate is useful for those interested in careers in the public or voluntary sectors. Possible professions include social worker, youth worker, charity officer, community development worker or volunteer co-ordinator.
We offer a comprehensive Careers Service to help you advance your career, while our in-house, professional recruitment consultancy, Birkbeck Talent, works with London’s top employers to help you gain work experience that fits in with your evening studies.
Our standard postgraduate entry requirement is a second-class honours degree (2:2 or above) from a UK university, or an equivalent international qualification.
We will review every postgraduate application to Birkbeck on its individual merits and your professional qualifications and/or relevant work experience will be taken into consideration positively. We actively support and encourage applications from mature learners.
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Subjects
- Gender
- Sexuality
- Cinema
- Theories
- Debates
- Culture
- Society
- Family
- Scandal
- Modernity
Course programme
This programme comprises two 30-credit modules, one compulsory taught module and an option module which allows you to work independently on a relevant topic of your choice.
MODULE GROUPS
COMPULSORY MODULE
- Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Gender and Sexuality in Cinema
- Gender and Sexuality: Theories and debates
- Intimate Britain: Family, Society and Culture, 1832-1918
- Representations of Love, Desire and Sexuality (Level 6)
- Scandal!
- Sexuality and Modernity: Reading Across Cultures
Gender and Sexuality Studies (Graduate Certificate)