HS 225 - History of Gender and Sexuality

2.  Analyze scholarly primary and secondary sources in order to understand and articulate the commonalities and differences around ideas about gender and sexuality among diverse cultures and worldviews with regard to economic, social, cultural and political problems. (GELO3)

3.  Comprehend how the changing historic context and social, political, economic and cultural conditions impacted the behavior and choices of individuals, the development and operation of societal institutions and governments and the perception of social and cultural institutions and phenomena around concepts of gender and sexuality. (GELO3)

4.  Through a historical perspective, understand how past generations have used gender and sexuality to explain the natural world, explore the causation for diverse cultural ideas and traditions around these topics, and appreciate the diversity and complexities of the global community. (GELO3)

5.  Through learning historical methods of analysis, students will be able to conduct primary and secondary research, analyze data, craft academic arguments about historical causation and social significance, and effectively present their findings. (GELO2)

6.  Through selected primary and secondary readings, lectures, group discussions and documentary films, students will comprehend how the changing historic context and social, political, economic and cultural conditions from the Neolithic period to the present impacted the behavior of individuals, the development and operation of societal institutions and law codes and the perception of social and cultural institutions and phenomena. (GELO3)

7.  Explore questions and hypotheses related to political power and agency, racial, social and gender inequality through the use of primary and secondary sources and detailed analysis. (GELO3)

8.  Analyze the complex relationship between the social construction of illness, biological disease, scientific racism, race and gender politics, while evaluating their impacts on politics, societies and cultures. (GELO3)

9.  Translate or explain what written information means and/or how it can be used. (GELO2)

10.  Create and/or organize data and information into meaningful patterns in order to interpret and draw inferences from it. (GELO2)

11. Translate or explain what written information means and/or how it can be used. (GELO2)

12. Create and/or organize data and information into meaningful patterns in order to interpret and draw inferences from it. (GELO3)

II. Homer and the Greek Ideal

III. Greek Philosophy and Sciences: The One Sex Model

IV. Roman Society and the Family

V. Germanic Society: A Different Approach

VI. Early Christian Concepts of Gender, Sexuality and the Family

VII. Medieval Science and Culture: The Development of the Greek Ideal

VIII. The Renaissance: Humanism

IX. The ‘New World’ and New Cultures

X. Protestant Ideals About Men, Women and the Family

XI. The Scientific Revolution: The Two Sex Model

XII. Witchcraft and Gender

XIII. The Revolutionary Period and Concepts of Equality

XIV. The Industrial Revolution and Early Reform Movements

XV. The 19th-Century Family

XVI. Imperialism and the Imperial Gaze

XVII. First-Wave Feminism

XVIII. Modern Science and Bodies

XIX. World War I and the Homefront

XX. The New Soviet Man and Woman

XXI. World War II: Women at War

XXII. Women, Men and the Family in the 1950s

XXIII. Second-Wave Feminism

XXIV. Post-communism and Third-Wave Feminism

Discussion based on the secondary resources and primary sources: 20-50%

Any major deviations from the suggested material must be vetted through the department.

Papers: 30-40%

Essay-based exams: 40-50%

Presentation and participation: 10-20%

Quizzes and Written Assessments: 10-20%