Programme Overview:
- Duration:
- 1 Years / 2 Years
- Attendance:
- Full Time / Part Time
- Mode of Delivery:
- Face-to-Face
- Next Intake:
- 2023/2024 September
- Contact Name:
- Contact Number:
- Fees:
- Fee Information
MA Gender Sexuality & Culture offers students an exciting and challenging range of modules where they will explore the theory, history and representation of gender and sexuality in literature, film, drama and popular culture
Applications for the 2021/22 term have closed.
Curricular information is subject to change
Full Time option suitable for:
Domestic(EEA) applicants: Yes
International (Non EEA) applicants currently residing outside of the EEA Region. Yes
Part Time option suitable for:
Domestic(EEA) applicants: Yes
International (Non EEA) applicants currently residing outside of the EEA Region. No
The MA in Gender, Sexuality & Culture is a dynamic, interdisciplinary programme designed for students with a strong interest in examining gender and sexuality in culture. Our programme is the first, pioneering MA programme in the analysis of gender and sexuality in culture in the Humanities in Ireland, and it attracts students from all over the world and from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds. Drawing on the internationally recognised expertise in gender and sexuality studies from across the Humanities and Social Sciences in UCD, we provide our students with a rigorous training in the analysis of gender and sexuality in literature, film, television, media, performance, visual culture, digital culture and more. We enable our students to develop as theoretically sophisticated researchers, writers and critics equipped with cutting-edge critical skills and methods for understanding and analysing the formations of gender and sexuality in culture and society. Our programme values deeply informed, rigorous and innovative analysis, an openness to new perspectives, and self-reflective, socially and politically engaged critical practice. We foster and model these values in seminars and individual supervisions that prioritise challenging, high level discussion and debate within a mutually supportive and respectful environment.
MA Gender, Sexuality & Culture (Z162) Full Time
EU fee per year - € 7990
nonEU fee per year - € 21520
MA Gender, Sexuality & Culture (Z337) Part Time
EU fee per year - € 4800
nonEU fee per year - € 10760
***Fees are subject to change
Tuition fee information is available on the UCD Fees website.
Please note that UCD offers a number of graduate scholarships for full-time, self-funding international students, holding an offer of a place on a UCD graduate degree programme.
For further information please see International Scholarships.
This programme is intended for applicants with a background in the humanities, or literature, film studies, cultural studies, visual culture, sociology, anthropology, psychology, psychoanalysis as well as women’s studies, gender studies and sexuality studies. A keen interest in gender and sexuality and an ability to analyse textual representations are the key characteristics required.
Katherine Maller
Cultural Programmer
MA 2016
Pursuing a Masters in Literature helped me a great deal in publishing as it put me on the path to a higher-paying and more prestigious job. The gender and sexuality lens I cultivated in my degree has been helpful at both my last job as editor with Routledge and my current job as cultural programmer at the Goethe Institute in New York. The focus on writing and analysis is strong at UCD, helped by the truly stellar faculty and academic support. I feel that in general my master’s education has made me a more considerate and thoughtful person, which is invaluable professionally and fulfilling personally.
Crescent Rainwater, USA,
PhD Candidate UCLA
UCD offered a specialised programme that allowed me to combine my undergraduate English degree with my growing interest in gender and sexuality. I planned to pursue a PhD programme following this MA, and I knew it would offer a unique opportunity to help me to stand out from my fellow PhD applicants. The coursework is primarily based in literary studies, but it helped me to quickly acquire a specialisation and offered diverse range of courses.
The dissertation aspect of the MA was a wonderful opportunity to develop my research interests and write a piece of work that really prepared me for doing a PhD. It gave me an excellent writing sample, pushed me to build on the confidence I had started to cultivate as an undergraduate student, and challenged me to take on the role of a scholar with a voice. Doing my MA at UCD absolutely made all the difference in my acceptance to UCLA’s PhD in English.
The following entry routes are available:
* Courses will remain open until such time as all places have been filled, therefore early application is advised