Undoing ‘Protective Scientism’ in a Gender, Religion and Health Masters Curriculum

The Gender, Religion and Health (GRH) Masters Programme at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) sought to encourage such problem-solving research (focusing on the issue of sexual and reproductive health) through merging three disciplinary areas of study into one programme: gender studies, religious studies and health (sexual and reproductive health). In the first two years of the programme, the curriculum was designed in a multi-disciplinary form, rather than an interdisciplinary one owing to pragmatic and operational reasons, given that this was a pilot programme that was launched in 2013.