Objectives 

The Department of Social Anthropology and History of the University of the Aegean offers a Postgraduate Studies Program entitled Women and Gender: Anthropological and Historical Approaches, which awards a Master of Arts (MA) degree.

The Program’s objective is to advance the level of education of scientists and researchers who specialize in Women and Gender Studies, in order to be in a position to respond to the need of today’s multicultural societies by promoting the principle of equality on the basis of otherness in all domains.  The Program is interdisciplinary and combines Social Anthropology and History, as well as these disciplines’ articulation with a series of other related disciplines such as Economics, Political Philosophy, Socio-linguistics, and Art.  An additional innovation characterizing the Program concerns its theoretical and methodological approaches, which facilitate linkages between the knowledge obtained from the study of non-western societies and cultures on gender issues and the respective dialogue developed in Greece over the same issues.  Consequently, the elements distinguishing this Program are its interdisciplinary character, deriving from the interdisciplinary orientation of the Department of Social Anthropology and History to which it belongs, as well as the emphasis on qualitative research methods and particularly on the ethnographic approach.

Objectives of the Postgraduate Program:

1. Promoting research and scholarly knowledge in the area of Women’s and Gender Studies that will enhance the systematic study of the gendered character of social relations and facilitate the documentation of gender-related social inequality.
2. Developing new research approaches in scientific fields that will give recognition to the presence of women in the areas of socio-economic, cultural and scientific activity.
3. Providing advanced level postgraduate training in those socially sensitive domains of policy-making that concern equality and gender.
4. Training a new scientific force capable of understanding and promoting the principle of equality in various sectors of society, such as education, employment, social policy, health and the arts.
5. Facilitating the wide acceptance of the study of the gendered character of social relations that will enhance the awareness of educators – academics, at the level of higher education, on equality and gender issues.
6. Linking the available knowledge with international developments in related disciplines as well as in research directions and areas of specialization.