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ATS3593

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 22 November 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 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.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

History

Coordinator(s)

Dr Charlotte Greenhalgh

Offered

Not offered in 2016

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

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr Charlotte Greenhalgh

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

History

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of second-year Arts units.

Prohibitions

ATS2593