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Institute for Gender Studies

Courses

The College of Human Sciences is proud to offer a cutting-edge interdisciplinary Honours degree in Gender Studies. The Honours degree in Gender Studies consists of five compulsory year courses, namely:

  • GENMETU Feminist Theory and Methodology
    Offered by the Department of English Studies
    Contact Dr Jessica Murray: murraj@unisa.ac.za or Prof Deirdre Byrne: byrnedc@unisa.ac.za  
  • GENDEVY Gender and Development
    Offered by the Department of Development Studies;
    Contact Mrs L Masemola (Departmental secretary): masemplm@unisa.ac.za
  • GENREL5 Women, Religion and Spirituality
    Offered by the Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology
    Contact Prof Annalet van Schalkwyk: vschaa@unisa.ac.za
  • HCMMCTG Mass Communication Theory
    Offered by the Department of Communication Science
    Contact Mr Christo Cilliers: cillicp@unisa.ac.za  
  • GENARTJ A Research Article or a Research Report
    Offered by the Department of English Studies
    Contact Dr Jessica Murray: murraj@unisa.ac.za or Prof Deirdre Byrne: byrnedc@unisa.ac.za  

We strongly advise students to plan their degree over a minimum of two years. Your first year should focus on GENMETU and any other two courses. GENARTJ should be attempted once you have completed GENMETU together with your remaining course.

A gender-related topic for GENARTJ can be chosen from a list of topics that will be supervised by a dedicated lecturer. The supervisors are from the above departments, namely English Studies, Development Studies, Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology, and Communication Science, as well as History and Sociology.