Gender Studies

(Major 90)

Degree program: Master of Arts (RVO19)

General description

Gender Studies encompasses women’s, men’s and gender studies, plus queer theory. It looks into the significance of gender and gender difference on an historically-founded, comparative cultural, and theoretically reflective basis, inquiring into the relationship between biological, physiological, psychological, and sociocultural differentiation on the one hand and processes involved in the social construction of gender and the renegotiation of gender boundaries on the other. At UZH the areas of thematic focus are literature and culture, non-European societies, transregional and postcolonial studies. A knowledge of gender and critical reflection on gender and gender relations are key to an understanding of increasingly complex societies. Those completing the program have a solid technical grounding in the discipline equipping them to do independent academic work in the field of gender research.

Admission requirements

For general Informations on Application see: https://www.uzh.ch/cmsssl/en/studies/application; More Informations in regulations and admission requirements of the program of study.

ECTS credits

90 ECTS Credits

Degree

Master of Arts UZH

Language of instruction

German