Postgraduate Coursework in Gender and Cutural Studies
The Gender and Cultural Studies Department at the University of Sydney is the leading centre for research into gender and culture in Australia, renowned internationally for interdisciplinary research and teaching in a wide range of cultural studies and gender studies.
With some of Australia's foremost researchers in these areas on staff, the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies provides you with critically engaging ideas and the tools to analyse a wide range of issues. The Department's academics draw on a number of theoretical and empirical research paradigms, spanning social science and humanities research methods.
The department offers the only specific Master of Cultural Studies program in Australia. First introduced in 2008, ithe program is now running with its full set of units. Students take eight units of study from 14 offered by the department and a number of electives available from other departments in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Postgraduate coursework students are guided in their program by the convenor of postgraduate coursework, Dr Guy Redden, with the assistance of the internship officer.
In joining the department, postgraduate coursework students belong to a dynamic postgraduate community. They are invited to attend both the department's research seminar series and the postgraduate work-in-progress series.
Many of our postgraduate coursework units may also be taken by students on other coursework programs in the Faculty, and in some circumstances, Masters by research and doctoral students in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies.