Gender Society and Representation

Gender, Society and Representation is an inter-faculty programme drawing on the unusual breadth of disciplines for which UCL is renowned, including development studies, law, anthropology, literary scholarship, geography and queer studies. UCL offers students an opportunity to develop their own interests within this broad intellectual landscape.

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.

Core modules

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

Optional modules

Options may include the following.

• Apocalypse Literature
• Equality, Justice and Difference
• 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

Dissertation/report

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

Teaching and learning

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.

A minimum of an upper second-class Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.

All prospective students can apply for the UCL Graduate School Open Scholarships.

Scholarships relevant to this department are displayed below.

Wellcome Trust Scholarship

Eligibility:

UK, EU, Overseas students

Criteria:

Based on academic merit