Birkbeck, University of London

You complete a core module, 3 option modules and a dissertation. Full-time students generally take 1 option module in Term 1 and 2 option modules in Term 2; part-time students generally take 1 option module in Term 2 of their first year, 1 in Term 1 of their second year and 1 in Term 2 of their second year. However, option modules are available in all 3 terms. You choose option modules from 2 lists compiled each year: you must take at least 2 option modules from the MSc Gender options list and may take 1 option module from the MA Gender options list. Workshops and presentations of students' research take place throughout the year. Core module: Theorising Gender . Option modules: Africa in the European Imagination; Contemporary Lesbian Fiction: sexual/textual explorations; Culture, Community, Identity; Disciplining Sex: Sexuality, Society and Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture; Gender and Development; Gender and Politics: Political Institutions; Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Japanese Fiction; Law and the Body; Madness and its Meanings; Men and Masculinities in Contemporary East Asia; Psychoanalysis and Difference; Queer Histories/Queer Cultures; The Two Irelands 1911-1998 .