Overview
Description
Exploration of gendered verbal and nonverbal communication in various social interaction settings. Includes friendships, families, classrooms, organizations, and the media.
Requirements
Prerequisites
COM 113COM 212
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
COM 113; COM 212.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Every Fall - Odd Years
Terms
fall
Core
CO10
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- define historical and contemporary developments in gender theory.
- evaluate the concept of gender as it relates and interacts with related concepts including sex and sexuality.
- identify gendered communication practices.
- invent and explore alternatives to produce, consume, and enact gender beyond the usual gender binary.
- critically analyze the relationship between gender and major social institutions such as language, family, education, intimacy, work, and media.
- apply individual gendered biographies and trajectories to world contexts.