Master of Philosophy in Gender Studies - Online

A completed bachelor's honours degree or an appropriate postgraduate diploma or a 480 credit bachelor's degree in a gender-related discipline with an average pass mark of 60% or above. Selection will be done by means of a research statement which all students have to submit upon application. Statements will be assessed by the lecturers and supervisors in the Institute of Gender Studies and students will be admitted if they have submitted a viable research statement as well as on the basis of capacity for supervision within the Institute.

All students with foreign qualifications, including those with qualifications from African countries, must have their qualifications evaluated at SAQA.

Applicants must submit a transcript or an academic record, as well as a document describing their intended research. Students will be accepted on the following criteria:

• Suitability and viability of the intended research
• Adequate supervisory capacity and research expertise in the discipline or department.

There is an approved selection procedure which is in line with Unisa's policies on equality and diversity in the discipline or department.

A research master's degree comprises a dissertation on an approved topic. You will be expected to have a research proposal approved in the first year of study.

Please note: If you do not complete a research proposal in the first year of study, you will not be permitted to continue with the qualification. You will also be excluded from applying for admission to the same college for a period of two years.