Course Catalog - 2013-2014

     

ANTH 649 - CULTURES OF SEXUALITY

Long Title: CULTURES OF SEXUALITY
Department: Anthropology
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: What is "sexuality" across cultural milieux? This course analyzes understandings and practices of sexuality from a global, comparative perspective, including different social configurations of gender and intimacy, reproduction, sensuality and the erotic. Case studies explore the complex relationships between sexuality and gender, ethnicity, nationalism, globalization, commodification, politics, media, health and medicine. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 449. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 649 if student has credit for ANTH 449.