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GENDER AND COMMUNICATION (COM 300)

Term: 2019 - Spring

Faculty

Deidra Dawn DonmoyerShow MyInfo popup for Deidra Dawn Donmoyer
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Schedule

Tue-Thu, 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM (1/7/2019 - 5/1/2019) Location: MAIN TATE 206
Fri, 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM (5/3/2019 - 5/3/2019) Location: MAIN TATE 206

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.