units

ATS3593

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 25 April 2024
Monash University

Undergraduate - Unit

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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LevelUndergraduate
FacultyFaculty of Arts
Organisational UnitHistory
OfferedNot offered in 2014
Coordinator(s)Professor Bain Attwood

Notes

Previously coded HSY3410

Synopsis

This unit will examine the changing nature of sexuality in Australia, Britain and North America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The main topics will be the construction of masculinity and femininity, courtship and marriage, family and kinship, birth control, regulation in the private and public spheres, heterosexuality and homosexuality, the theorisation of sex, sexual reformers and sexual liberation movements.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit students will be expected to have:

  1. Understood the key theoretical concepts used by scholars in the field of the history of sexuality.
  2. Understood the major historiographical debates in the field.
  3. Grasped the nature of the key changes in sexuality in the period covered by the unit.
  4. Conducted research into a particular area of the history of sexuality.

Assessment

Document exercise (1000 words): 20%
Research essay (2500 words): 40%
Test (1000 words): 30%
Tutorial partcipation: 10%

Chief examiner(s)

Professor Bain Attwood

Workload requirements

2-3 hours per week

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

History

Prerequisites

Two gateway units in History or permission

Prohibitions

ATS2593