CORE 447 - Cultural Creations: Women Across Time
Prerequisites: Core seminar, required for graduation CORE 101 through CORE 105 and at least sixth semester standing
This course attempts to open our minds and imaginations to the complex subtleties of underlying gender assumptions implicit in gender/role “assignments.” From the first moments of our history, we human beings have categorized our surroundings, including our very selves, in an attempt to order our chaotic world. Stereotyping-reducing a complexity to a simple, easily identifiable formula, becomes an integral part of that ordering, a sort of communication “shorthand.” Sexual stereotyping becomes, for most civilizations, the basis not only for social structuring and division of labor, but also for value judgments and moral justification. Through the interdisciplinary lens - archeological, anthropological, artistic, economic, legal, literary, historical, philosophical, religious and scientific, this course seeks to unearth the complex beginnings and plot the evolution of sexual definition from prehistory to present day.
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