BA in Gender, Sexuality and Culture in Canberra Australia | The Australian National University

The Gender, Sexuality and Culture program equips students with interdisciplinary tools to critically examine gender, sexuality, and other social categories. Students gain a conceptual framework for analyzing gender dynamics and how cultural contexts shape societal norms. The course pushes students to question conventional views by exploring how gender and sexuality are shaped across historical periods, cultural settings, and global contexts.
This major fosters independent, creative thinking about societal structures, personal identity, and cultural phenomena. It promotes a reflective, inquisitive approach to knowledge, integrating perspectives from Gender Studies and Cultural Studies while employing theoretical lenses like feminist theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory, and post-structuralism.

Learning Outcomes
critically assess and implement modern theories concerning gender, sexuality, and culture;
employ specialized terminology from gender and cultural studies to examine current issues;
apply gender and cultural studies methodologies to investigate representations in various media;
recognize and comprehend interdisciplinary methods for studying gender, sexuality, and culture;