To develop a critical understanding of gender and sexuality as culturally and historically contingent;

To reflect, using examples from modern Britain, on how understandings and experiences of gender and sexuality have intersected with other forms of social categorisation such as race and class;

To explore how the concepts of power and subjectivity relate to the ways gender and sexuality have been understood and experienced;

To think critically about tensions between change and continuity in the context of modern Britain.

(LO1) Students will be able to interpret and synthesize evidence from scholarly texts and primary sources concerning gender history and the history of sexuality.

(LO2) Students will be able to appraise primary sources for their representativeness, reliability and usefulness.

(LO3) Students will be able to discuss some of the different theoretical and methodological approaches of historians of gender and sexuality.

(LO4) Students will be able to evaluate the importance of historical analysis to understanding how ideas about gender and sexuality change over time.

(S1) Organisation: time management, note-taking, setting personal research targets, working to timescales.

(S2) Written communication: structure, coherence, clarity and fluency of written expression.

(S3) Adaptability: presenting work in a variety of formats.

(S4) Digital fluency: familiarity with using online resources and experience of using digital media to present work.

(S5) Global citizenship: ability to reflect on and discuss the historical precedents of gendered inequalities and prejudices about sexualities, to critique heteronormative understandings of society, and to take an intersectional approach to understanding experiences of gender and sexuality.

The weekly syllabus can be found in the module handbook and on Canvas.

Eleven hours of lectures.
The lectures provide a framework for the module, introduce the main themes, concepts and historical debates, and provide the context for the in-depth discussions in the seminars.

Twenty hours of seminar time.
These focus on detailed group analysis of key aspects of the module, with students discussing and developing their analysis of gender histories and histories of sexuality.

The majority of teaching will be delivered face-to-face on campus. Online delivery will be used to complement the on-campus delivery and where technology affords a better learning experience.