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MA Global Genders – (M.A.)
University of Leeds
Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law
| Location: | Leeds / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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You will examine the impact of global migrations on gender relations as people move through space and place, and consider what global gender struggles Western feminists can legitimately become involved in.
You will also consider how development programmes can avoid the colonialist and sexist tendencies they have exhibited in the past.
This course will explore gender relations and international feminisms within a context of issues such as development, migration and globalisation, from the perspectives of feminist and post-colonial theories.
Key themes covered in this course include gender and post-colonial theory, migration, gender and nation, sexuality, gender and development, international management and forms of control, sexuality and cinema, and work.
Contents
MA Global Genders is available on a 12-month full-time or a 24-month part-time basis. The course has five modules: four compulsory, with either one or two elective.
Compulsory modules
Researching Gender provides you with the opportunity to focus on researching gender with a particular emphasis on feminist research practices. In exploring a range of disciplinary perspectives, you will focus on epistemological, methodological and ethical considerations. In particular, the course looks at these considerations with relation to research design and methods.
The module also encourages you to think beyond disciplinary boundaries and develop an understanding of the possibilities of interdisciplinary research. You will critically analyse research practice from a gender and feminist perspective, review and appraise research findings, and synthesise information and knowledge from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary sources and perspectives.
Global Genders provides you with a range of critical perspectives on theorising genders in different geographical spaces. You will consider inequality among and between peoples rather than looking at traits embodied in all non-Western, non-white peoples and cultures.
You will also examine the term 'global' in relation to an analysis of economic, political, ideological and cultural processes within a post-colonial era that foregrounds the operations of nation, 'race', class, ethnicity, gender, heterosexism and capitalism.
Gender, Globalisation and Development critically examines key issues in globalisation from a gender perspective. You will examine industrialisation, employment, livelihood strategies, migration and key development issues such as gender-based violence, climate and environmental change, education and literacy, from different regional perspectives.
You then take either the Dissertation or Research Project module.
Dissertation allows you to tailor your own programme of training and research in consultation with a member of staff drawn from the centre's MA/PhD supervisory panel.
Through the dissertation, you demonstrate your ability to develop and complete an in-depth analysis, select and use appropriate research methods, deploy advanced theoretical concepts and relate a focused study to broader debates and concerns.
Research Project allows you to explore an aspect of gender relations in society, either contemporary or historical, through the production of a piece of empirical research.
Elective modules
In addition to the compulsory modules, you also choose either one or two modules from the following list.
* Post-colonial Representations
* Genders in America
* Postcolonial Cultures of Encounter and Settlement
* Que(e)rying Sexualities
* Gender, Race and Culture
* Contested Bodies
* Gender, Communications and Popular Culture
* German Cinema Into the New Millenium
* Gender and Development 2: Social Institutions; Organisations; Gender Aware Planning
* Race, Gender and Migration
* Identity, Ethnicity and 'Race' in the Luso-Hispano World
* Identity in Chicano/a Literature and Film
* The Regulation of Sexuality in Spain and Latin America
* Contemporary Issues in Religion and Gender
* Religion, Politics and Society in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
If you wish to apply for these programmes, you should normally hold a good honours degree (upper second class or first class), or an equivalent professional qualification. Relevant experience will be taken into account where appropriate.
Postgraduate diploma routes are available for candidates that do not wish to take the full MA programme. It is also possible to consider candidates for the Diploma who are not appropriately qualified for immediate MA study. Such candidates may be considered for subsequent transfer to an MA programme, depending on performance.
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
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