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GRI 216 - Thinking Sex and Gender

(3 units) CO10
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. (GRI 216 and HIST 216  are cross-listed; credit may be earned in one of the two.)

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. explain the concept of the social construction of gender and sexuality and identify how this concept can be applied or explained historically.
4. analyze and synthesize primary and secondary sources both orally and in writing.


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