Humanities and Social Sciences

Gender, Sexuality and Diversity Studies

Honours Program

GSDS Honours units in 2009

Gender on Screen (Media Studies)
Terrie Waddell
1st semester

Students consider the relationship of feminist theory in an historical context to questions of media representations involving women as creator and/or subject. Examples for consideration are drawn from the print media, television and new technologies. Theoretical approaches to these diverse media forms will be discussed during workshops.

The Body as Performance (Drama)
Peta Tait
1st Semester - Monday 1-4
Seminar Room at Drama Centre

Performances that stage gender, racial and sexual difference can challenge culturally orthodox beliefs about bodies and identity. The concept of performing self from recent theories of performativity is considered in relation to the culturally encoded body. The meanings created by performing bodies will be analysed using photographs, videos and written scripts‹bodies in and as texts. A diverse range of theatrical performances, circus and staged events will be critiqued to explore philosophical concepts of the body. In this approach we consider the staging of bodies as theatre and/or spectacle or social event, and we will also address the question: how does the viewing of bodies differ from the experience of performing/participating? This subject is concerned with how we think about bodies.

Other units may be taken in consultation with the Honours Co-ordinator

Some of the units have prerequisites at second/third year level. If you are in doubt over whether you satisfy a prerequisite, or if you want to discuss the possibility of waiving a prerequisite, you should contact the unit coordinator.