Cultural Studies, Supervised Research

An introduction to postgraduate-level research in Cultural Studies.

30 points

Subject to approval of the Programme Director.

Constructing Feminist History

A synthesizing sweep of the construction of feminist history in post counter cultural western societies. It examines the growth and development of women's, gender and feminist history. The major theme is the contested position of women as essential subjects in history.

30 points

Subject to approval of the Programme Director.

HIST440, CULT404, GEND412

The Policies and Politics of Sex

This course provides students with an interest in human service practice the opportunity to investigate shifting socio-cultural constructions of sexuality with an emphasis on the contradictions and complexities in the social regulation of sexuality and the contours of state control. Issues relating to human service practice explored in the course include: reproductive rights; law reforms, queer culture and homophobia; local and international control of prostitution; the emergence of sexual rights; pornography and eroticism; sex education and the hidden curriculum; sex and harrassment; sexual violence; safe sex and the HIV/AIDS era; sexuality and ageing; cultural sexualities; the medicalisation of sexuality and the transgendered body.

30 points

Subject to approval of the Programme Director.

HSRV407

Te Matakahi: Indigenous Critical Theory

Theory for Maori and indigenous scholars. The study of counter-hegemonic theory in contemporary post-colonial states. How resistance theory and praxis evolved in response to colonial expansion, assimilation and other violence. The contribution of emancipatory theorising. Limits and restrictions placed upon indigenous options by neoliberalism, biculturalism and multiculturalism, and, self-locking within the coloniser-colonised binary. Can we maintain resistance and create new spaces and practices 'outside' of this relationship? Theorists include Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Edward Said, Malcolm X, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and others.

30 points

Subject to approval of the Programme Director.

MAOR401

MA Dissertation

MA Dissertation

60 points

Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

MA Thesis

120 points

Subject to approval of the Programme Director.