Overview
Description
Exploration of gendered verbal and nonverbal communication in various social interaction settings. Includes friendships, families, classrooms, organizations, and the media.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall - Even Years
Terms
fall
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, and the inequities present within, gender and major social institutions such as language, family, education, intimacy, work, and media.
- apply individual gendered biographies and trajectories to world contexts.