Thinking Through Gender: Bodies, Deviance, Difference
UndergraduateLTU-GSD2DED2025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 20 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Price from
- $2,124
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Thinking Through Gender: Bodies, Deviance, Difference
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Apply interdisciplinary GSDS concepts to understanding issues and debates regarding gender and sexuality.
- Produce a sustained, complex written argument about gender and sexuality theories.
- Review gender sexuality and diversity studies theories and concepts in different historical and cultural contexts.
- Synthesise research and arguments about gender, sexuality and diversity.
- Gender
- Sexuality
- Race
- Disability
- Bodies
- Activism
- Policy
Drawing on perspectives of key thinkers in queer and trans theory, critical race theory, and disability/crip studies, we explore the ways we are taught to uphold and upkeep a disciplined (and disciplining) body across different times, places, texts, and histories. We hone skills in research, theory, and critical analysis as we explore how 'marginal bodies' have been and are positioned, represented, and thought in popular culture, social movements, and institutions.
Topics include feminist approaches to the body, gender euphoria and queer utopias, writing back to the colony, and posthumanism. The subject's blend of theory, reading, research, and creative writing promotes new ways of thinking about gender, the body, and society.
This is a level 2 subject. Please consider the subject pre-requisites before enrolling. This subject includes live sessions with the expectation of student attendance and participation.
- Blog posts to forums: 250 words each, 1,500 words total. Students will write and post 5 blog entries to our LMS forums related to subject content. (30%)
- Annotated bibliography and project plan (800 word equivalent). Students will develop and write an annotated bibliography and project plan. (20%)
- Research/reflective essay or creative artefact and exegesis: 2000 words (or equivalent). Students will use their project plan and annotated bibliography to provide a framework for final submission. (50%)
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Entry requirements
Others
Prerequisites: Students must have completed 60 credit points of Level one subjects.
Past La Trobe University students who have previously completed GSD2GES (Gender and Sexuality: Contemporary Debates) are ineligible to enrol in this subject.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
Find out more information on Commonwealth Loans to understand what this means to your eligibility for financial support.
What to study next?
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Health Sciences
UndergraduateLAT-AHS-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-ART-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-HSC-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-BUS-DEG
Bachelor of Information Technology
UndergraduateLAT-TEC-DEG
Bachelor of Psychological Science
UndergraduateLAT-PYS-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-CYS-DEG
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