2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue
MA Gender Studies
| Programme code: | MA-GEND/ST | UCAS code: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duration: | 12 Months | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
| Programme manager: | Dr Jessica Martin | Contact address: | J.Martin@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 180
Entry requirements:
Entry Requirements are available on the Course Search entry
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of Sociology and Social Policy
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
Programme specification:
This interdisciplinary programme explores gender relations in the past, present and future, centring marginalised perspectives. This programme takes a transnational view, engaging with decoloniality to tackle some of the most pressing social issues of our modern lives.
The programme will give you a thorough intellectual grounding in feminist scholarship, including both the foundational and canonical texts to which contemporary feminist scholarship owes its legacy, alongside current debates and developments. The course is dedicated to privileging transnational, indigenous and marginalised feminist knowledge, disrupting the narrative of dominant Western perspectives that have frequently come to define feminist scholarship.
Supported by our Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, and drawing on teaching expertise from around the University, you’ll be able to explore approaches from across a range of academic disciplines. You’ll learn the principles of conducting research on gender and examine issues that both shape and are shaped by gender relations, such as family roles, reproductive technologies, citizenship, sexuality and culture.
Core modules in gender theory and research will lay these foundations, and you’ll build on them by choosing from a range of options on topics such as gendered embodiment, gender and media, racism, decoloniality and migration, and religion and sexuality. There has never been a more exciting time to study gender, and this programme will give you an insight into this vital and fascinating field.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules
| SLSP5321M | Theorising Gender | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| SLSP5330M | Researching Gender/ Feminist Research | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| SLSP5401M | Dissertation | 60 credits | 1 Oct to 30 Sep (12mth) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 60 credits of optional modules in total.
Candidates will be required to study 30-60 credits from the following optional modules:
| SLSP5241M | Racism, Decoloniality and Migration | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP5251M | Decolonial and Social Thought | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP5310M | Contested Bodies | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP5340M | Gender, Sexuality and Popular Culture | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP5361M | Researching Inequality in the Media | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| THEO5120M | Religion, Gender and Sexuality | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
If you have chosen 30 credits of optional modules (1 module) from the list above, please select the remaining 30 credits of optional modules from the list below.
| SLSP5505M | Policy and Programme Evaluation | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP5515M | Quantitative Research Methods | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP5520M | Qualitative Research Methods | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Last updated: 14/06/2024 12:12:08
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