ANTH 220 - Sex, Gender and Culture

5 CR

An evolutionary, comparative, and holistic approach to sex and gender from the theoretical perspective of Anthropology. Explores the concepts of sex and gender through all four sub-fields (cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics). Readings examine both non-Western and Western cultures, illustrating how ideas about sex and gender vary in different times and cultures.

Recommended: ANTH 100.
Course Outcomes

Identify how gender studies in the four fields of anthropology are conducted and explain the importance of such studies.
Analyze the role of biological evolution in human and non-human primate sex and gender.
Compare and contrast how sex and gender are studied within an archaeological context from material remains.
Explain gender differences in language and communication.
Conduct cross-cultural examinations of sex and gender and assess how gender is culturally and historically created.
Critique androcentric biases of research on sex and gender.

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