Course Schedule and Catalog

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. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Crosslisted with FSEM 105 and LING 105. Cross-list: FSEM 105, LING 105.