Arts (Gender, Sexuality and Culture), Bachelor

The Bachelor of Arts at The Australian National University is its most diverse, flexible and popular degree. Its approximately fifty majors across the arts, humanities and social sciences are delivered by distinguished scholars, ensuring students receive exceptional education, engage with innovative research and develop a research-oriented approach. These majors may be paired with over seventy minors and specialisations to broaden or deepen study. Regardless of choices, the degree builds core skills in critical analysis, written and oral communication, adaptability and the capacity to drive change, preparing graduates for varied careers or further study.

Gender, Sexuality and Culture teaches students the interdisciplinary knowledge and skills to analyse gender, sexuality and other categories of difference critically. It trains students to use a conceptual vocabulary that facilitates critical thinking about the role of culture, society and economy in maintaining gender norms and hierarchies. It challenges students to move beyond common sense understandings of gender and sexuality by examining how they are constructed in different historical periods, cultural contexts and global processes. Gender, Sexuality and Culture major develops students' capacity for thinking and communicating creatively and independently about society, identity and power. It encourages a reflexive and questioning approach to knowledge. It draws on the disciplines of Gender Studies, Cultural Studies and Sociology. Students will have opportunities to learn about diverse theoretical and methodological frameworks such as those represented by feminist theory, queer theory, critical race studies, social constructivism, social and cultural studies of family/kinship and political economy.