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MSc in Gender (Research)

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Programme Code: TMGERE

Department: Gender Studies

For students starting this programme of study in 2025/26

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

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

Full-year programme. Students take two units of compulsory courses, options to the value of one unit 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

GI424 Gender Theories: An Interdisciplinary Approach (0.5)

Paper 2

GI402 Gender, Knowledge and Research Practice (0.5)

Paper 3

Courses to the value of 0.5 units from the following:

MY451A Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (0.5)

MY451W Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (0.5)

MY452A Applied Regression Analysis (0.5) #

MY452W Applied Regression Analysis (0.5) #

Paper 4

A B C

Courses to the value of 1.5 units from the following:

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)

GI414 Theorising Gender and Social Policy (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)

GI421 Sexuality, Gender and Culture (0.5)

GI422 Transnational Sexual Politics (1.0)

GI426 Gender and Human Rights (0.5) #

GI428 Bodies, Culture and Politics (0.5)

GI429 Archival Interventions: Feminist, Queer and Decolonial Approaches (0.5) #

GI432 Transnational perspectives on gender, borders and migration (0.5)

GV4H3 Feminist Political Theory (0.5)

MY400 Fundamentals of Social Science Research Design (0.5)

MY421A Qualitative Research Methods (0.5)

MY421W Qualitative Research Methods (0.5)

MY423 Interview Methods for Social Science Research (0.5) #

MY426 Doing Ethnography (0.5) #

MY428 Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis (0.5) #

MY451A Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (0.5)

MY451W Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (0.5)

MY452A Applied Regression Analysis (0.5) #

MY452W Applied Regression Analysis (0.5) #

Paper 5

GI499 Dissertation - Independent Research Project (1.0)

Footnotes

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

A: Paper 4: A course not listed above, approved by the Programme Director and subject to space and course teacher's consent.

B: Paper 4: Students can take courses to a maximum of one full unit from outside the Department of Gender Studies.

C: Paper 4: GI421 cannot be taken with GI422.

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.