CT+4032+Gender,+Difference+and+Curriculum

Next Offered
Fall 2013

Professor
Nancy Lesko (TC)

Syllabus
Note: Syllabus is from Spring 2013 and subject to change

Course description
This course offers a multifaceted examination of school curricula, policies, and practices as gendered. We will examine gender and difference in four broad areas related to schools: sports, sexuality/romance, media (cultural studies), and academics. Gender will not be considered in isolation but as interwoven with and complicated by cultural, racial, class, sexual, religious, and national identities, as well. The readings are interdisciplinary and draw from history, sociology, social studies of science, education, women’s studies, and cultural studies. We will primarily utilize a feminist post-structuralist perspective and discuss how such analysis and critique differs from liberal and multicultural feminisms; we will also examine how ethnic-gender-class identities and cultures are often expressed through relationships with commodities, such as, clothes, shoes, style, music, media, and “taste.” This course starts with a general curriculum perspective, that is, one that considers schooling experiences as a whole and asks, What is taught and learned, intentionally and unintentionally, by different girls and boys in schools? We will also consider how teaching experiences are gendered.

Review
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Student contact information
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