Undergraduate: Course rule and topic information

Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Psychology)

Major sequence option - Women's Studies

To be read in conjunction with the Program of Study [November, 2008] requirements for the Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Psychology).

33 units comprising:

First Year

WMST1001	Sex, Gender and Identities in Australia*	4.5
	and
WMST1002	Equal but Different? Introducing Feminist Debates**	4.5
	or one of the above topics plus one First Year topic from any Arts major or minor sequence in the BA	4.5

* Students taking WMST1001 may not enrol in WMST2005

** Students taking WMST1002 may not enrol in WMST2007

Second and Third Years

WMST3001	Thinking through the Body (core topic)	6
	and 12 units from the following:
WMST2003	Gender and Development	6
WMST2004	Researching Women's Life Stories	6
WMST2005	Sex, Gender and Identities in Australia	6
WMST2006	Gender in Australian Culture	6
WMST2007	Equal but Different? Introducing Feminist Debates	6
WMST2008	Media and Cultural Identities: Gender, Race and Sexuality	6
WMST2009	Sex, Gender and the Law	6
WMST3003	Gendering Politics and Policy: Justice, Rights and Representation	6
WMST3004	Indigenous Women's Voices	6
WMST3005	Women and Creativity	6
WMST3007	The Personal is Political: Governing Marriage and Marriage-Like Relationships	6
POLI2023	Feminist Political Theory	6
	and one other Women's Studies topic	6
	or one of the following topics:
ARCH3007	Power, Ethnicity and Gender in Archaeology	6
HIST2053	Maps and Dreams: Aboriginal Colonial Encounters in Australian History	6
PHIL2325	Gender and Power	6
SCRN2003	Sex and Gender	6
SOCI3016	Sociology of Intimacy	6

or by special arrangement with the Head of School, students may take a gender-based topic from another academic unit.

Not all topics are available each year.