CORE 447 - Cultural Creations: Women Across Time

Institution:

Roger Williams University

Subject:

CORE CURRICULUM

Description:

Prerequisite: Core seminar, required for graduationCore 101 through 105 and at least sixth semester standingThis course attempts to open our minds and imaginations to thecomplex subtleties of underlying gender assumptions implicit ingender/role "assignments." From the first moments of our history, wehuman beings have categorized our surroundings, including our veryselves, in an attempt to order our chaotic world. Stereotyping-reducinga complexity to a simple, easily identifiable formula, becomes anintegral part of that ordering, a sort of communication "shorthand."Sexual stereotyping becomes, for most civilizations, the basis notonly for social structuring and division of labor, but also for valuejudgments and moral justification. Through the interdisciplinary lens- archeological, anthropological, artistic, economic, legal, literary,historical, philosophical, religious and scientific, this course seeksto unearth the complex beginnings and plot the evolution of sexualdefinition from prehistory to present day.

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rwu.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 253-1040

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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