WS5003:06
Gender Studies and Social Welfare *
| External | HECS Band 1 |
Semester 2.
Available to students enrolled in postgraduate courses offered by the School of Social Work and Community Welfare and the Centre for Womenrsquo;s Studies.
Staff: Professor R Thorpe.
A variety of frameworks of feminist thought will be explored from a critical perspective and scrutinised in relation to their applicability in social welfare. Although the position of women will be of central concern, analyses of the social construction of masculinities will form a component of the subject.
Learning Objectives:
- knowledge of different approaches to feminist and pro-feminist thought;
- ability to apply feminist and pro-feminist thought in analysis of social welfare.
Assessment by project (100%).
* Offered in even-numbered years