Students can complete a major or minor sequence in Women's Studies, or enrol in any single topic in the Women's Studies undergraduate program as part of their course , providing that the rules of that course permits enrolment.

Major sequence in Women's Studies

Students can enrol in a major sequence in Women's Studies as part of their BA degree, the Bachelor of Behavioural Sciences degree or any of the Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of Arts double degrees.

A major sequence in Women's Studies consists of at least 33 units of Women's Studies topics, comprising 9 units of first year level (which may include any 4.5 unit first level topic which counts towards any other Arts major sequence) and 24 units of upper level topics which must include WMST 3001.

The third year level topic WMST 3001 Thinking Through the Body  is compulsory. The topics may be taken in any order. There are no prerequisites.

Minor sequence in Women's Studies

Students who are enrolled in the BA or BBehavSc or the Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of Arts double degrees, can take a minor sequence in Women's Studies.

A minor sequence in Women's Studies consists of at least 21 units of Women's Studies topics, comprising 9 units at first year level and 12 units from upper level topics. The topics may be taken in any order. There are no prerequisites. There is no compulsory topic.

2010 program of study

First level topics

WMST 1001 Sex, Gender and Identities in Australia*

and

WMST 1002 Gender, Power and Change: Introducing Feminist Debates**

To complete the 9 units required for the Women's Studies major students make take one of the above topics plus one First Year topic from any Arts major or minor sequence in the BA

Upper level topics

WMST2003 Gender and Development

WMST 2005 Sex, Gender and Identities in Australia *

WMST 2007 Gender, Power and Change: Introducing Feminist Debates **

WMST2008 Media and Cultural Identities: Gender, Race and Sexuality

WMST 2010 Witches, Heretics & Holy Women: Women in World Religions

WMST 3001 Thinking Through the Body  (core topic)

WMST 3003 Gendering Politics and Policy:Justice, Rights and Representation

WMST3004 Indigenous Women's Voices

WMST3007 The Personal is Political: Governing Marriage and Marriage-Like Relationships

WMST3008 Performing Masculinities

To complete the 24 units of upper level topics for the Women's Studies major students may take 6 units from the following topics:

ARCH 3007 Archaeology for Global Justice
HIST 2062 Body Politics in Australian History
SOAD 3002 Access and Equity: Social Issues in Public Policy
SOCI 3016 Sociology of Intimacy

Or by special arrangement with the Head of the Department, a gender based topic from another academic unit.
* Students may not count both WMST 1001 and WMST 2005 towards their degree.
** Students may not count both WMST 1002 and WMST 2007 towards their degree.