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This occurrence is not offered in 2026
This course explores the changing landscape of sexuality and gender categories and identities, as well as new forms and understandings of intimacy and relationality. It considers how various identities, representations and practices disrupt and/or reproduce gendered, sexual and non-sexual intimacies and relationship normativities in a range of sites. These include mediated intimacies, polyamory and other non-consensual non-monogamies, asexualities, incels and PUAs (‘pick up artists’), ‘sexting’ and dating apps.
By the end of this course students will:• recognise the ways in which gender, sexualities and relationalities have been conceptualized.• be able to demonstrate an understanding of sociological and interdisciplinary theorizing of gender, sexualities and relationalities.• develop critical awareness of some of the political issues and controversies around constructions and practices of gender and sexualities, in both online and offline contexts.• be able to adapt their knowledge to local and global contexts through attention to specific examples/sites, both local and global.• have greater bi-/multicultural awareness with respect to different constructions and practices of gender, sexuality and intimacy.• develop and demonstrate scholarly research abilities.• develop their oral skills during class discussions.
Any 30 points at 200 level from ANTH or SOCI, orany 60 points at 200 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
SOCI433
Tiina Vares
Domestic fee $1,896.00
International fee $8,525.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .