约克大学 · 女性与性别研究文学硕士 硕士

📖 项目简介

You'll study 180 credits in total. This course consists of:

• Three 20-credit core module
• Three 20-credit option modules
• A 60-credit independent research dissertation
• Modules
• Dissertation
• Women, Gender and Feminism: Key Issues and Approaches
• Feminism and Sexuality
• Doing Feminist Research

You will also take a compulsory IT Session and Academic Integrity Module to ensure you have a basic knowledge of academic requirements and the digital literacy skills to optimise your learning and engagement with the course’s resources.

• Creative Practice as Research: Feminist Artivism
• Introduction to Qualitative Methods and Data Analysis
• Introduction to Quantitative Methods and Data Analysis
• Feminism and Sexuality
• Gender and Violence
• Women, Citizenship and Conflict
• Queer Studies Across Disciplines

Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.

• Dissertation

The final stage of the MA is the completion of a 12,000-word dissertation .

This is an opportunity to further develop and apply your skills to a research question and specialise in a particular area of research.

Past dissertation research projects have included:

• The Chinese Female Master Student's Experience in the UK: Studying, Living and Thinking'
• 'Sex and Relationship Education in England: Heteronormativity, Pleasure, and Pornography'
• 'The Space of Coming Out: Lesbians talking about where they came out to family members'

You will be supported by your allocated dissertation supervisor who will provide supervisions and read drafts of your work. You'll be invited to attend the ‘Sisterhood in Action’ conference to discuss your provisional dissertation topic and research with staff and PhD students.

Further dissertation support and independent research skills development will be available throughout the year, in modules such as Feminist Research Methodologies and the CWS extracurricular skills workshop series, alongside additional support from the University Library, Writing Centre, and other student services.

Every course at York is built on a distinctive set of learning outcomes. These will give you a clear understanding of what you will be able to accomplish at the end of the course and help you explain what you can offer employers. Our academics identify the knowledge, skills, and experiences you'll need upon graduation and then design the course to get you there.

• Interrogate and explain complex issues and debates within Women’s Studies, including the problematics of the concept ‘gender’ and the differences among women and gender-non-conforming persons with regard to categories such as race, ethnicity, class, age, dis/ability, sexuality.
• Analyse gendered lives and wider socio-political and cultural issues through the application of interdisciplinary feminist approaches to knowledge, with a nuanced understanding of the intersections between feminist thought and wider social and cultural debates.
• Recognise the complexity of power relations and how these inform one’s critical practice by demonstrating reflexive insight into the ethical and political issues inherent in scholarship.
• Apply and demonstrate sophisticated knowledge of interdisciplinary research methods, with a nuanced understanding of their strengths and limitations.
• Plan, design and undertake a substantial independent research project, through the application of appropriate theories and methodologies.
• Independently locate, manage, synthesise and present complex ideas from multiple sources through the use of digital skills.
• Communicate complex arguments cogently and with nuance in written and oral form to a standard expected of professionals and scholars.

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✨ 项目特色

You’ll work with world‐leading academics who’ll challenge you to think independently and excel in all that you do. Our approach to teaching will provide you with the knowledge, opportunities, and support you need to grow and succeed in a global workplace.

Teaching is usually in the form of two-hour seminars which include group work and full class discussions. Seminars are led by a single tutor or run collaboratively by a team of academics.

You will be assigned a personal supervisor and you'll regularly meet with tutors, in seminars and during arranged meetings.

You will be based in the Centre for Women’s Studies on Campus East, where most of your teaching will take place.

Our beautiful green campus offers a student-friendly setting in which to live and study, within easy reach of the action in the city centre. It's easy to get around campus - everything is within walking or pedalling distance, or you can always use the fast and frequent bus service.

You’ll be assessed in a number of different ways, depending on the modules you study.

Forms of assessment include:

• presentations
• reflective journals
• portfolio work
• essays
• dissertation

🎯 入学要求

If English isn't your first language you may need to provide evidence of your English language ability. We accept the following qualifications:

For more information see our postgraduate English language requirements .

You may be eligible for one of our pre-sessional English language courses . These courses will provide you with the level of English needed to meet the conditions of your offer.

The length of course you need to take depends on your current English language test scores and how much you need to improve to reach our English language requirements.

After you've accepted your offer to study at York, we'll confirm which pre-sessional course you should apply to via You@York .

You can apply and send all your documentation online. You don’t need to complete your application all at once: you can start it, save it and finish it later.

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