MA Gender, Sexuality and Queer Theory
MA Gender, Sexuality and Queer Theory aims to provide an awareness of, and a sensitivity to, gender issues as they relate to sexuality and queer theory.
The course examines the relationship between genders and sexualities, and explores the histories of sexualities, their medicalisations and political struggles. You will investigate whether queer theory can sufficiently account for power differentials between men and women in their sexual relationships.
You will consider what transsexuality, transgenderism and intersexuality, as well as anthropological studies of 'third genders', can say about the norms of sexuality we are encouraged to accept.
This course aims to critically interrogate the ways in which we come to think about sexualities as natural and rooted in biological sex and socially constructed genders.
Postgraduate Diploma in Gender, Sexuality and Queer Theory
Available on a 12-month full-time or 24-month part-time basis, the Postgraduate Diploma in Gender, Sexuality and Queer Theory covers similar ground to the MA, but does not include the dissertation module.
On the basis of a good performance in a full-time student's first semester, or a part-timer's first year, students initially registered for the Diploma may be transferred onto the corresponding MA.
Key Information
Start Date: 29 September.
Duration: 12 months full-time; 24 months part-time.
Entry Requirements: a good honours degree in a related discipline.
Full entry requirements
UK/EU student fees:
Full-time:
£3,300 per year
Part-time: £1,650 per year
International student fees:
Full-time:
£9,700 per year
Part-time: £4,850 per year
Full finance information