Course Notes: This course will investigate sex/gender and sexuality as analytic categories for understanding culture. Through a consideration of both history and theory, the course will explore different models for understanding sex/gender and sexuality, including their interaction with other categories of difference such as race and class. It will also explore the effect of these models on our understanding of the literature, mass culture, theories of identity, and contemporary social life. Prerequisite: ENG 100 or College Writing Equivalent.

Course Notes: What does sex and gender have to do with education and schooling? What are the beliefs, facts, and myths that have influenced the schooling of boys and girls over time and today, both in the U.S. and comparatively across the world? Interdisciplinary topics include the structure and function of the institution of pre K-16 education, the socialization of gender in schooling, and the gendered nature of school climate, curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices, and the laws, interventions, and strategies attempted to remedy inequalities. Prerequisite: SBS 210 (or other comparable critical thinking class).