Gender, Society and Representation MA/PG Dip

Students gain the advanced skills, methods, concepts and theories required for the study of gender in an interdisciplinary context at graduate level. Optional modules offer students a genuine opportunity to develop their own interests in a wide range of disciplines, and the dissertation provides opportunities for independent research.

Students undertake modules to the value of 180 credits.

The programme offers two pathways: Taught and Research. The taught pathway consists of three core modules (60 credits), optional modules (60 credits), and a dissertation (60 credits). The research pathway consists of three core modules (60 credits), optional modules (30 credits) and a dissertation (90 credits).

A Postgraduate Diploma, three core modules (60 credts), two to four optional modules (60 credits), full-time one year, part-time two years, is offered.

All three of these modules are compulsory.

• Gender, Society and Representation
• Gender, Politics and Feminism
• Research and Writing Skills

Options may include the following (not all will be available in a given year, and some have prerequisites such as existing studies in the field):

• Equality, Justice and Difference
• Critical Introduction to Sexuality Studies
• Feminism and Philosophy
• Gender, Race and Sexuality: New Readings in Francophone Literature and Visual Culture
• Gendering the Study of Politics: Theory and Practice
• Gender in Policy and Planning
• Gender and Sexuality in Education
• Gender, Sexuality and Cultural Politics
• The Global Politics of Gender and Sexuality
• Hollywood Genres
• The Human and Non-Human in Medieval Art
• Public and Private Modernities
• Readings in 20th Century Chinese Culture: Family, Childhood, Gender
• Reproduction, Sex and Sexuality
• Sex and the Body in Early Modern Europe
• Sexuality and Society in Russia and Eastern Europe
• Theories of Childhood and Society
• Tracing the Body: Technologies of Representation in 18th and 19th Century France
• Women in the Jewish Tradition
• Elective modules from the School of Oriental and African Studies

Other UCL Master's modules may be chosen, subject to the convenor's approval, if their relevance to the programme of study is demonstrated.

Students undertake an independent research project which culminates in a dissertation of 12,000 words (taught pathway) or 18,000 words (research pathway).

Teaching sessions are interactive, with a limited amount of lecturing and an emphasis on student participation and critical discussion. Assessment is through a variety of methods, including essays, coursework, written papers, oral examination and the dissertation.