Exciting Spring Elective: ANTH 367/GWST 367

Tue, 19 Jan 2016 10:15:53 -0500

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology is excited to offer ANTH 367 (The Anthropology of Gender) this Spring.

Please see below for course details.

Catalog Number: ANTH 367-01 (also listed as GWST 367-01)
Course Title: The Anthropology of Gender
Class Number: 7823 (8135 for GWST)
Meeting Pattern: TuTh 1:00pm - 2:15pm
Instructor: Dr. Rubinstein
Course Description: The Anthropology of Gender concerns the wide range of meanings given to gender and sexuality in different settings. In exploring how gender and sexuality are culturally constructed the course does not focus on the biology of gender and sexuality per se. Rather, the course explores distinctive peoples understandings of gender and sexuality. Lectures focus on basic principles by which to examine gender in cross-cultural perspective. Readings focus on detailed and complex examples of distinctive gender and sexuality system.