SOC-1006 SEX AND GENDER

This course is designed to introduce you to the study of sex and gender. Topics will include: what sex and gender means in our society and other societies around the world; how gender develops over the life span; how gender shapes our lives and how the social world shapes our construction of gender; how similar and different genders are across a number of domains; and how culture, religion, and the media shape and reinforce ideas about gender.