LAW10491 - Sexual Orientation and the LawInformation for students studying in 2013

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Unit Description

This unit will centre sexuality and discuss it in a thematic, rather than doctrinal manner. We will consider the multitude of ways in which law in Australia, and elsewhere, constructs and regulates individuals and families by reference to their sexuality. In doing so we will traverse and re-traverse various legal doctrinal areas, such as criminal law, international law, family law, anti-discrimination law and so on, but our focus is not on the legal rules as such. Rather we will be examining ideas of sexuality and gender that generate, reproduce and/or change such rules. Law in this course will be examined as an ideological and discursive system rather than as a rule-based system. A major theme through the unit is the tension between assimilation and resistance, specifically, the extent to which lesbians, gay men and other sexual outsiders can transform law, or are in turn, pressed into conforming to it through their efforts.

Availability


Distance Education	Unavailable
Distance Education (Online)	Unavailable
Lismore	Unavailable
Coffs Harbour	Unavailable
Gold Coast Southern Cross Drive, Bilinga	Unavailable
Tweed Heads - SCU Lakeside Caloola Drive, Tweed Heads
Tweed Heads - SCU Riverside Brett Street, Tweed Heads	Unavailable

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Unit Type	Undergraduate
School	School of Law and Justice

Fee Information: Commencing 2013 - UNDERGRADUATE Commonwealth Supported only.

Student Contribution Band

Not Applicable for this Unit

Credit Points per unit

For fee information for pre-2009, pre-2010, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 students please check the Student Contribution Amounts.
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Pre-requisites

8 units in Law

Part of Course

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