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THE DEVELOPMENT OF GENDER IDENTITY (HDV-283104)

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Course Description:


This course is designed to provide upper-level students with the opportunity to reflect on the personal meaning of gender, bridging from the biological structures that determine our sexuality, to gender as a social institution that affects our behaviors and beliefs. The course addresses (and distinguishes) sexuality and gender as experienced on the personal level, particularly gender as applied to the physical self; relationships of a self with intimates, friends and family; and relationships with environments such as school and work (using the Bronfenbrenner ecological model of psychological development). The wide variation of gender perspectives through history will be reviewed, as well as variations in gender concepts across current cultures. Keeping those broader perspectives in mind, psychosexual variations will be identified and discussed. Gender biases in the study of gender will be presented, and each student will have a chance to set up a simple gender study.

Prerequisites: Introduction to Human Development or Introduction to Psychology or equivalent.

This course fully meets the General Education requirement in Social Sciences.
This online course is offered through the Center for Distance Learning. You can take this as an individual course or as part of an online degree program, with term starts in March, May, September, November and January. View current term offerings and all online courses. Click here to register for online courses.

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Liberal Study
Upper Level
Credits: 4
Meets General Education Requirement In: Social Sciences-Full
Term(s) Offered (Subject to Change) : Jan. Sep.

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