CT370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Binary System, Anita Harris, Times New Roman
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This course will examine the relationship between gender and culture across diverse contexts. From pop culture to subculture, from local to transnational contexts, the course considers how our world is shaped by our ideas about gender, and how gender shapes our ideas about the world. Tracing the origins of our ideas about sex and gender historically to the contemporary redefinition of gender, we will examine how gender connects to the body, sexuality, and social differences. This course uses critical thinking techniques to examine course topics, which challenge conventional ideas about gender, sexuality and society. Students will develop analytic and interpretive skills using the concepts, theories and topics from the course. Examining different frameworks and approaches to studying gender, students will apply these theories and concepts to course topics. Specifically, students will: critically examine and analyze gender in society, distinguish diverse theories of gender and sexuality, examine the social construction of femininities and masculinities in society;
