Gender Studies University of Cyprus

Inaugurated in 2012, in parallel with the Gender Studies Center and the Unesco Chair in Gender Equality, the Master's Program in Gender Studies is the only graduate program in women's studies in Cyprus. The goal of the Master's Program is to offer comprehensive academic knowledge in gender and sexuality studies and to contribute to the academic development of the relevant fields of inquiry. It interrogates and envisions alternatives to patriarchal social structures, institutions, ideologies and relationships. Also, it challenges perceptions of and reconceptualizes understandings and approaches to gender, sexuality, body, culture, materiality, discourse and the human-nonhuman distinction in traditional academic disciplines.

The curriculum is designed to meet the needs of students who strive to build firm scholarly foundations in gender, women's and sexuality studies. These foundations enable our graduates to continue to PhD studies and pursue academic careers and to pursue and effect social change in a society with persistent misogynist and homophobic attitudes, patriarchal structures and systemic gender inequality.

The interdepartmental composition of the faculty and the partnership, both at the level of instruction and research, with international scholars and networks, provides state of arts gender studies expertise with regards to education studies, history, classics, literature, cultural studies, animal studies, philosophy, human rights, management and organization analysis, politics, and area studies such as postcolonial, critical race and globalization studies.

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