Politics, Sexuality and Gender BA(Hons)

Year 1 

In your first year, you will study five core modules that introduce you to the subject area, including specialist modules covering key approaches to the study of politics, sexuality and gender. You will also take an optional module.

Modules

• Approaches to Gender and Sexuality
• Foundations in World Politics
• Introduction to the Global Challenges Lab
• Sex and Politics: Defining Contemporary Issues
• Politics in Practice

Options*, choose one from:

• Comparative Political Systems
• Democracy
• Understanding Society in a Global World
• Global Challenges Lab: The Global and the Local
• Environmental Politics: Institutions, Actors, Animals and  Movements

*Option modules are indicative and may change, depending on timetabling and staff availability.

Year 2

In year two, you build your knowledge of the subject. You explore contemporary theories and practices of government and policy and examine key thematic issues relating to sexuality and gender, including the relationship between bodies and power. You'll get to specialise in the subjects that interest you most through choosing optional modules.

Modules

• UK Politics
• Decolonising the People: Politics in the Twenty-first Century
• Unruly Bodies: Understanding and Contesting Normativity
• Gender and Sexuality

Options*

Choose one from:

• Queer Writing
• Conceptualising the Self
• Global Challenges Lab: Research Communication
• Gender, Race and Environment

Choose one from:

• Body Politics
• Subject, Power, Truth
• Global Challenges Lab: Policy Solutions
• Conflict and Development

*Option modules are indicative and may change, depending on timetabling and staff availability.

Final year

In your final year you will further develop your knowledge and skills, with a specific focus on the future and progressive change. You will explore the place of sexuality and gender in contemporary theories of social transformation and work with an external campaigning organisation to develop your understanding of how civil society groups can make interventions in the political sphere.

You also work on a major independent research project, supported by an academic supervisor. The project is an opportunity for you to develop an idea independently, using the skills you have honed throughout your course. Option modules provide more opportunities to focus on subjects that interest and intrigue you.

Modules

• Social Change Project
• Activism and Social Change
• Sexual Utopias

Options*

Choose one from:

• Community Placement: Theory in Practice
• Bodies in Dispute: Biopolitics and the Body as Resistance
• Global Social Policy
• Terror and Conflict in Latin America 
• Language, Gender and Sexuality

Choose one from:

• Participation, Performance, Politics
• The Global Politics of Critique in the Twenty-first Century
• Care Ethics and Social Policy
• Conflict, Migration, Borders
• Feminisms

*Option modules are indicative and may change, depending on timetabling and staff availability.

Meet the team

Joanna's current research explores the relationship between theories of subjectivity and Critical Theory. She is interested in how understandings of subjectivity shape both social policy and critical theories of emancipation, with a particular focus on ideas about child development, gender, intersectionality and care.

More broadly, her research interests include psychoanalytic theory and praxis; psychoanalysis and social justice; the politics of mental health; Critical Theory; feminist theory; gender studies; cultural studies; the politics of reproduction and care. Read Joanna's full profile.

Other staff who teach on the course include: Dr Clare Woodford, Dr Heba Youssef, Dr Chris Wyatt, Prof Mark Devenney, Dr Robin Dunford, Dr German Primera Villamiza, Dr Chrystie Myketiak and Dr Zoe Sutherland.

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What's included

You may have to pay additional costs during your studies. The cost of optional activities is not included in your tuition fee and you will need to meet this cost in addition to your fees. A summary of the costs that you may be expected to pay, and what is included in the fee, while studying a course in the School of Humanities are listed here.

• For a number of courses you will have the opportunity to attend field trips and off-site visits. These are optional and are not required to pass your course but under normal circumstances we would expect a budget of approximately £150 per year will cover the costs of particular trips. The amount spent would be based on location and number of trips taken.
• You will have access to computers and necessary software, however many students choose to buy their own hardware, software and accessories. The amount spent will depend on your individual choices but this expenditure is not essential to pass any of our courses.
• In most cases coursework submissions are electronic but you may wish to print notes and should budget up to £150 per year for printing.
• Course books are available from the university but you may wish to budget up to £200 to buy your own copies.

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The fees listed here are for full-time courses beginning in the academic year 2022–23.

Further tuition fees are payable for each subsequent year of study and are subject to an annual increase of no more than 5% or RPI (whichever is the greater). The annual increase for UK students, who are subject to regulated fees, will increase no more than the statutory maximum fee.

You can find out more about our fees in the university's student contract and tuition fee policy (pdf).

The tuition fee you have to pay depends on a number of factors including the kind of course you take, and whether you study full-time or part-time. If you are studying part-time you will normally be charged on a pro rata basis depending on the number of modules you take.

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