Overview
Description
Introduction to the historical construction of sexuality and gender across different time periods, locations, and in relation to other forms of difference. Examines the ways that sexuality and gender have related to broader social, cultural, and political structures in the past and how historians analyze sexuality and gender.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Core
CO10
Related Courses
Cross Listed With GRI 216
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- identify major examples of how norms and practices of sexuality and gender were created, challenged, or changed in the time period(s) and place(s) examined in the course.
- identify how sexuality and gender have interacted historically with other phenomena or structures, such as colonialism and imperialism, race and racism, labor, religion, citizenship and law, or popular culture.
- explain the concept of the social construction of gender and sexuality and identify how this concept can be applied or explained historically.
- analyze and synthesize primary and secondary sources both orally and in writing.