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. A knowledge of gender and critical reflection on gender and gender relations are key to an understanding of increasingly complex societies. The minor in Gender Studies teaches the relative categories and a deeper knowledge of the conceptual, methodological, and theoretical basis of interdisciplinary 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

30 ECTS Credits

Language of instruction

German