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MSc Sex, Gender and Sexualities

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    MSc Full-time: 1 year, Part-time: 2 years

Course Description

The Sex, Gender and Sexualities MSc programme is an innovative and interdisciplinary masters which aims to engage students with cutting edge and research-led learning. The University holds a wealth of experience and knowledge in relation to the study of gender, sex and sexuality across multiple facilities and departments.

This masters takes advantage of the knowledge and experience of staff already here at the University and includes members from the Department of Sociology, the School of Literature and Languages and the School of Psychology. Our masters programme will be a truly interdisciplinary experience that allows students more freedom in module choices and in topics for their dissertations.

The Sex, Gender and Sexualities MSc has been carefully designed to capitalise on the wealth of research and teaching occurring at the University of Surrey about these topics from across a wide range of disciplines in order to offer this exciting and innovative programme. The programme has three broad aims:

  • To provide an inclusive, welcoming and supportive learning environment in which to engage students in interdisciplinary studies of sex, gender and sexuality
  • To foster both a supportive cohort identity and group cohesion alongside flexibility, allowing students to make choices about their education
  • To produce graduates who have advanced critical, analytical, and professional skills with a high level of sophisticated knowledge about sex, gender and sexuality.

Entry Requirements

A minimum of a 2:2 UK honours degree, or recognised equivalent international qualification, in a relevant discipline within the social sciences and humanities.

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Programme Funding

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Student Destinations

The interdisciplinary nature of this masters means that graduates from the programme will have broad appeal to a wide range of potential recruiters and graduates would be able to articulate applicability to a vast range of roles. This masters programme allows students to engage with specialist content for around the topics of sex, gender and sexuality suitable in a vast variety of careers.

Naturally, students will be especially equipped to engage in further doctoral study but graduates would also suit careers in many other sectors, including but not limited to: charity sectors, civil service, social services, archive and collections/museums, teaching and pedagogy/education sectors, media/journalism, publishing.

Module Details

  • FAMILIES AND SOCIETY Optional 1
  • FIELD METHODS Optional 1
  • HISTORIES OF SEX/UALITY Compulsory 1
  • QUEER ECOLOGIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE Optional 1
  • RESEARCH AND WRITING SKILLS Optional 1
  • SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION Optional 1
  • TRAVEL WRITING PAST AND PRESENT: THEMES, FORMS, AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES Optional 1
  • WOMEN BEHIND THE SCREEN: GENDER AND LABOUR IN FILM Optional 1
  • WRITING GAMING Optional 1
  • CULTURES OF RACE AND RACISM Optional 2
  • MEDIEVAL WOMEN’S WRITING Optional 2
  • QUEER FEMINIST APPROACHES Compulsory 2
  • SOCIOLOGY OF MENTAL HEALTH Optional 2
  • THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF GENDER Optional 2
  • TRANS/SCENDING GENDER Compulsory 2
  • UNDERSTANDING SEXUALITIES Optional 2
  • DISSERTATION Compulsory Year-long

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