MA in Gender Studies

Earn a valuable degree

This intensive program is for students who have a four-year bachelor’s degree and some grounding in gender studies or a related field. The program will introduce you to the major theoretical and methodological approaches to the field from a range of disciplines, including history, sociology, international relations, legal studies and literature, leading to original research on your chosen topic.

Quick Facts

Duration 10 months
Starting in September
Application Deadline 1st of February
Tuition Fee €12,000/year
Location Vienna, Austria
Degree Dual Austrian and the U.S. degree

The program aims at developing independent and critical thinkers with a broad basic knowledge of gender studies and the skills to approach gender as a key element of social and symbolic order at the local and the global levels. In keeping with these goals, the program introduces you to major theoretical and methodological approaches to gender studies from a range of disciplines.

The present faculty includes scholars trained in history, sociology, socio-cultural anthropology, political science, international relations, philosophy, literature, legal studies, rhetoric, and cultural studies. You are thus expected to develop your scholarly perspectives through an interdisciplinary lens and beyond your immediate fields of interest.

Study your passion

Courses include:

  • Bodies Across Borders: Global Migration in Historical Perspective
  • Communism and Gender: Historical and Global Perspectives
  • Critical Race Theory: Race and Law from the United States to Europe
  • Equality Policy in Comparative Perspective
  • Foundations of Gender Studies
  • Gender, Labor Markets, Neoliberalisms
  • Gender, Memory and Nationalism
  • Gender, Sexuality, and the Non/Human
  • Globalization and Global Inequality
  • Intersectionality & Interdisciplinarity in Gender Studies Research
  • The Law and Politics of Combating Violence Against Women

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Admissions requirements:

  • Completed online application form
  • Proof of English proficiency
  • Letters of recommendation
  • CV
  • Bachelor’s degree (four-year bachelor’s)
  • Academic records
  • Statement of purpose
  • Some knowledge of gender or feminist scholarship

Application deadlines:

  • February 1, 2023 for master’s and PhD studies with financial aid
  • March 15, 2023 for self-financing master’s candidates who will require a study visa
  • August 15, 2023 for self-financing master’s candidates who will not require a study visa

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What our students say

“Through feminist pedagogical practices that foster multiple facets of understanding, including empathy and self-knowledge, our department strives to create learning environments where needs and differences are treasured and, when necessary, respectfully negotiated. As a scholar, a teacher and a mother, I think that without these we risk raising generations who are socially disengaged and fail to realize their potential as thinking and feeling human beings.”

Petra Bakos
Serbia

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