Concentration in Gender Studies
The Gender Studies Concentration consists of 21 units and is an Interdisciplinary Concentration co-offered by the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Social Sciences. The Gender Studies Concentration aims at delivering a unique opportunity for students to add breadth to their major studies, through being exposed to the way gender intersects with a variety of spheres of knowledge, power relations, and professional settings.
The objectives of the concentrations are:
- To enable students to analyse in a systematic manner the social and cultural construction of gender in our own and other contexts from a variety of disciplinary perspectives;
- To explain gender biases in society, knowledge, media, social justice, and everyday life; and
- To research on gender issues as they intersect with the hierarchies of class, ethnicity, sexuality, and with national and global formations, and so on.
The structure of the curriculum is as follows:
| I) | Required Course | 3 units |
| II) | Elective Courses | 18 units |
| 21 units |
Requirements
| I. | Required Course | 3 units |
| GEND3005 Gender, Society, Culture | 3 units | |
| II. | Elective Courses | 18 units |
| Students should choose six elective courses from two or more offering departments, at least four of the courses should be at Level 3 or above: | ||
| CHIL3015 Selected Chinese Lyrics and Songs (Subtitle: Women Composers of Ci Poetry from the Song to Qing Dynasties) | 3 units | |
| CHIL4095 Single Chinese Author Forum (Modern and Contemporary Writer) | 3 units | |
| CHIL4096 Special Topics in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature (Subtitle: Discourses of Disease) | 3 units | |
| Either | ||
| CHSH3115 Engendering Imperial Chinese History | 3 units | |
| Or | ||
| HIST3115 Engendering Imperial Chinese History | 3 units | |
| Either | ||
| CHSH4105 History of Chinese Women since 1912 | 3 units | |
| Or | ||
| HIST4105 History of Chinese Women since 1912 | 3 units | |
| Either | ||
| CHSH4126 Selected Themes in the History of Chinese Women | 3 units | |
| Or | ||
| HIST4126 Selected Themes in the History of Chinese Women | 3 units | |
| Either | ||
| CHSH4407 Topic Studies in Social History | 3 units | |
| Or | ||
| HIST4407 Topic Studies in Social History | 3 units | |
| Either | ||
| CHSS4006 Chinese Family and Kinship | 3 units | |
| Or | ||
| SOCI4006 Chinese Family and Kinship | 3 units | |
| Either | ||
| CHSS4055 Gender in Contemporary China | 3 units | |
| Or | ||
| SOCI4055 Gender in Contemporary China | 3 units | |
| ENGL4006 Advanced Topic in Language | 3 units | |
| ENGL4017 Advanced Seminar in Language and Gender (Subtitle: Language Gender and Sexuality) | 3 units | |
| ENGL4075 Special Topic in Comparative Literature (Subtitle: Women in Modern Drama) | 3 units | |
| ENGL4085 Special Topic in Literature | 3 units | |
| ENGL4095 Gender and Literature | 3 units | |
| HIST4135 Topic Studies in Chinese History | 3 units | |
| HIST4215 Topic Studies in Western History | 3 units | |
| HIST4406 Topic Studies in Cultural History | 3 units | |
| HUMN2025 Gender: Theory and Culture | 3 units | |
| HUMN4007 Body Cultures | 3 units | |
| HUMN4035 Special Topic in Theory and Culture | 3 units | |
| HUMN4036 Special Topic in Media and Cultural Studies | 3 units | |
| HUMN4037 Special Topic in Arts and Creativity | 3 units | |
| HUMN4045 Special Topic in Theory and Culture | 3 units | |
| POLS4245 Topics in Comparative and Global Politics | 3 units | |
| RELI3126 Theology, Liberalism and Sex in Chinese Societies | 3 units | |
| RELI4007 Theology and Sex in Chinese Societies | 3 units | |
| SOCI2036 Sociology of Marriage and the Family | 3 units | |
| SOCI3035 Sex, Gender and Society | 3 units | |
| SOWK3205 Love and Human Sexuality | 3 units | |
| TRAN4015 Gender and Translation | 3 units | |
| 21 units | ||
Remark:
As the subtitle of special topic courses may change from time to time, it is at the discretion of the Gender Studies Concentration Management Committee regarding if a subtitled course could be counted as a Gender Studies Concentration elective course.
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