Applicants should normally have at least an upper second class (2.1) Honours Bachelors degree or equivalent (for example, GPA of 3.3) in a relevant area. Since places on the course are limited, applicants may be interviewed or asked to submit a writing sample for assessment.
All applicants to Trinity are required to provide official evidence of proficiency in the English language. Applicants to this course are required to meet
Band B (Standard Entry)
English language requirements. For more details of qualifications that meet Band B, see the English Language Requirements page
The M.Phil. in Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies exposes students to theories, methodologies, debates, and controversies that produce contemporary scholarship on women, gender and sexuality. Our course draws on insights and perspectives from the three disciplines in the School of Histories and Humanities: Classics, History, and History of Art and Architecture. As such, the course is both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, training students to research within and across these disciplines. Our students acquire a deep understanding of the historical and cultural contexts in which gender and sexuality are produced, performed and negotiated. Is This Course For Me? This course is aimed at students interested in historically and theoretically nuanced approaches to studying women, gender and sexuality that are offered through the three disciplines in the School of Histories and Humanities: Classics, History and History of Art and Architecture. By emphasizing a rigorous multidisciplinary perspective in our teaching and research, our faculty offer students a range of analytical and methodological skills to think historically and contextually about gender and sexuality. Through our modules, students will consider the social, political, and economic aspects of gender and sexuality and have opportunities to analyse the ways in which these modalities relate to other categories such as race, ethnicity, nationality, class, age and disability.