Schedule
Mon-Wed-Fri, 3:30 PM - 4:20 PM (1/12/2011 - 1/19/2011) Location: MAIN TATE 214
Mon-Wed-Fri, 3:30 PM - 4:20 PM (1/12/2011 - 5/11/2011) Location: MAIN LIB 107
Description
300: Gender and Communication
Goal: To explore the roles, rules, expectations, and power dynamics in the performance of gender in relational and textual processes.
Content: Reading, discussion, and analysis, primarily through a feminist lens, of situations and artifacts in private and public life: from family, friendship, and romance to education, work/organizations, media, and other social institutions. Work to challenge the assumptions and dictates of societal notions of gender, sex, and sexuality. There will be a primary focus given to works by and about women.
Taught: Alternate Years.
Prerequisite: COM 103 or WST 200 or permission of instructor.
Credit: 3 hours; Cross-listed as WST 300.