School of Gender Studies

Master of Arts in Gender Studies(started 2023-24 Academic year onwards)

Programme Description
The Master of Arts in Gender Studies is a flagship programme of the School of Gender Studies,
MGU which seeks to amalgamate rigorous theoretical explorations on gender with meaningful,
actionable feminist practice. The programme offers future change makers a holistic educational
experience that will engage them in learning and critiquing interdisciplinary texts and
perspectives to make critical interventions in theory, policy and practice. The programme
will provide students with an in-depth knowledge of the epistemological, conceptual, legal and
empirical contexts in which gendered inequalities and power dynamics are produced and
enacted. The programme aims to also challenge pedagogical inertia with syllabi that combine
gender-centred core courses with multidisciplinary foundational courses and an evolving basket
of innovative electives that will bring in practitioners, thinkers and activists engaging in gender
issues in various institutional contexts in local, regional and global frameworks. The programme
also emphasises an introduction to research methods that will help the students chart unique
pathways and perspectives on gender in their future endeavours.

Objectives
The MA in Gender Studies aims to provide students with an opportunity

• ● to critically understand the theoretical and ethical concerns of gender, identity and sexuality in
  multidisciplinary contexts
  ● to create an inclusive pedagogical space where students can engage in learning conceptual
  categories that feminist and queer theory offers while also critiquing the various marginalities
  produced by inequalities of class, caste, race, religion, disability and sexuality.
  ● to apply gender theory to ongoing and emerging discussions in policy, planning and practice
  with an interdisciplinary approach and to contribute to contemporary feminist and queer political
  movements and projects.
  ● to develop skills in feminist and queer research and documentation to make transformations in
  various organizational and institutional contexts.