MSc in Gender (Sexuality)

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Programme Code: TMGESX

Department: Gender Studies

For students starting this programme of study in 2021/22

Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (four units)
Exam sub-board local rules

Full-year programme. Students must take two compulsory courses, options to the value of 1.5 units and a dissertation as shown.

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.
Paper	Course number, title (unit value)

Paper 1	GI422 Transnational Sexual Politics (1.0)

Paper 2	GI424 Gender Theories: An Interdisciplinary Approach (0.5)

Paper 3
	Courses to the value of 1.0 unit from the following, subject to availability:
	GI402 Gender, Knowledge and Research Practice (0.5)
	GI410 Screening the 21st Century: Cinema and Cultural Critique (0.5) #
	GI413 Gender, Race and Militarisation (0.5)
	GI417 Feminist Population Politics (0.5)
	GI425 Introduction to Gender, Peace and Security (0.5)

	Gender Studies Options List
Paper 4
	Courses to the value of 0.5 units from the following, subject to availability:A further 0.5 unit option from the following (recommended):
	Gender Studies Options List
	(OR)One of the following non-Gender half-unit courses: DV447 Youth and Gendered Violence (0.5) # (withdrawn 2024/25)
	DV457 Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation (0.5)
	MC426 Film Theory and World Cinema (0.5) #
	SO458 Gendering, Identities, Difference (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	SP417 Sexuality, Everyday Lives and Social Policy in Developing Countries (0.5)

	(OR)
	A course not listed above, approved by the Programme Director and subject to space and course teacher's consent.
Paper 5	GI499 Dissertation - Independent Research Project (1.0)



GI402 Gender, Knowledge and Research Practice (0.5)
GI403 Gender and Media Representation (0.5)
GI409 Conceptual Foundations in Gender, Development and Globalization (0.5) #
GI410 Screening the 21st Century: Cinema and Cultural Critique (0.5) #
GI411 Gender, Post/coloniality and Development: Critical Perspectives and New Directions (0.5) #
GI413 Gender, Race and Militarisation (0.5)
GI415 Gender and Welfare Regimes: Developments and Change (0.5)
GI417 Feminist Population Politics (0.5)
GI418 Feminist Economics and Policy (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)
GI420 Feminist Perspectives on Transnational Development (0.5)
GI425 Introduction to Gender, Peace and Security (0.5)
GI426 Gender and Human Rights (0.5) #
GI428 Bodies, Culture and Politics (0.5)
GI429 Archival Interventions: Feminist, Queer and Decolonial Approaches (0.5) #
GI431 Abolition and Anticarceral Feminisms (0.5) #
GI432 Transnational perspectives on gender, borders and migration (0.5)

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

Note for prospective students:
For changes to graduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the graduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the graduate summary page for future students.