Gender and Sexuality Studies (Graduate Certificate)

Postgraduate

In London

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    London

  • 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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Location

Start date

London
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Malet Street, WC1E 7HX

Start date

On request

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

COURSE STRUCTURE

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
INDICATIVE OPTION MODULES
  • 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
Birkbeck makes all reasonable efforts to deliver educational services, modules and programmes of study as described on our website. In the event that there are material changes to our offering (for example, due to matters beyond our control), we will update applicant and student facing information as quickly as possible and offer alternatives to applicants, offer-holders and current students.

Gender and Sexuality Studies (Graduate Certificate)

Price on request