Gender and Women's Studies

The MA in Gender and Women’s Studies is a taught postgraduate degree which will deepen your perspectives on gender studies and feminism.

As a student on this programme you will gain a thorough knowledge of the key debates and authors within Gender and Women’s Studies as well as the opportunity to develop specialist interests and key research skills. Core modules will take you through the intellectual traditions, concepts and politics which have shaped the evolution of Women’s Studies inside and outside the academy, and will give you the methodological confidence to do your own research.

Core

• Debates in Gender Research
• Gender, Sex and Bodies

Optional

• Contemporary British Fiction
• Postcolonial Women's Writing
• Contemporary Gothic: Text and Screen
• Fusions
• Research Projects in Practice: From Design to Dissemination
• Beyond the Text: Literature, Image and Voice as Historical Evidence
• Writing the Nineteenth Century City
• Social and Cultural Theory
• Cybercultures
• Women's Studies Research Project
• Victorian Literature and Other Media
• Romance and Realism
• Environment and Culture
• The Social Life of Science and Technology: Theories and Debates
• Contemporary Debates in Sociology
• Feminist Technoscience Studies
• Methods in Science and Technology Studies
• Critical Debates in Media and Cultural Studies
• Gender and Violence
• Capitalism and Crisis

Requirements

• An upper second class honours degree, or its equivalent, in Sociology or Gender and Women’s Studies (or related field)
• IELTS: 7.0 or equivalent
• Assessment: Coursework and dissertation
• Bakalavr or Specialist Diploma
• Degree certificates and transcripts of previous higher education (college/university) degrees or other courses that you have completed/for which you are currently studying. Note that, for transcripts in languages other than English, a certified English translation will be required
• Personal Statement
• Research proposal (for research degrees)
• References

Scholarships

• Global Education