Course Catalog - 2008-2009

     

SWGS 105 - LANGUAGE, GENDER & SEXUALITY

Long Title: LANGUAGE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY
Department: Stdy of Women, Gender, & Sxlty
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This course examines the role that gender, biological sex, and sexuality play in the language varieties that people use. We will see that although all cultures have specified gender roles, and all cultures mark gender through language varieties, those differences are not, I promise, what you think they are. Cross-list: FSEM 105, LING 105.