Gender Studies Education

Tema Genus is a creative and dynamic environment since 1999 engaged in interdisciplinary research and graduate education. Tema Genus is at present situated in an expansionary phase, our researchers, teachers and graduate students come from around the world: Istanbul, London, Berlin, Prague, Teheran and Linköping. We collaborate with researchers from Cape Town and Luleå.

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Master Programme

Gender Studies - Intersectionality and Change, Master's Programme, 120 credits

You learn to challenge norms and structures in education, organisations, media and politics. Focusses in intersectional gender – gender in interplay with other social categorisation such as ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, age, (dis)ability etc.

Single Subject Courses in Gender Studies

Ground level

Gender Studies - Introduction, 7.5 credits

Are we sisters after all? Gender and postcolonialism, 7.5 credits

Postcolonial and women-of-color feminists have long questioned the idea of sisterhood allegedly uniting all women. Yet Western gender theory continues to act as the only correct model of feminism necessary to emulate by all others, whereas gender ...

Master's level

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Gender, Labour, and Social Reproduction, 7.5 credits

Do you want to deepen your understanding of how gender and social factors influence labour market conditions and societal structures? This course offers you the opportunity to critically analyse these issues.

Feminist Pedagogy and Intersectional Gender Didactics, 7.5 credits

This course is designed for students who want to increase their knowledge of feminist and intersectional pedagogical theories and didactics, including norm critical theories, emphatic reading and transversal dialogues, with a special focus on inte...

Feminist Enviromental Humanities, 7.5 credits

How are socio-cultural discourses connected to environmental issues? What is the relation between nature and culture? What are the linkages between social and environmental justice? In this course, you'll explore the intersections of environmental...

Norm Creative perspectives on Design, Power, and Change, 6 credits

Decolonial Feminist Thought, Activism, and Art, 7.5 credits

Decolonization has presently turned into a new global trend. It involves not only the struggles of indigenous and colonized people and minorities for their survival, rights and autonomies, but also the students` and professors` fights for decoloni...

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Queer Studies: Subjects, Bodies, Ecologies, 7.5 credits

This course will provide you with an introduction to queer studies: an interdisciplinary field that critically examines and challenges normative and binary understandings of gender, sex, and sexuality, as well as hierarchies, social inequalities, ...

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Director of studies

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Gender studies (TEMAG)

At Tema Genus, we conduct research, PhD training, undergraduate and master’s education, and social outreach, all with a foundation in interdisciplinary gender studies and often together with international collaborators.

PhD Programme in Gender Studies

Doctoral students receive an education that provides gender analytical skills at a high, international level. The interdisciplinary approach gives opportunities to work with and analyze gender in many different contexts.

Education

Why study at Linköping University? LiU offers innovative education and boundary-crossing research. Our students are among the most desirable in the labour market and international rankings consistently place LiU as a leading global university.