Instructor: Angela Bauer and Sean Larsen
Day/Time Taught: TTH 03:30PM – 05:10PM
Term: Fall 2014
Course Number: FYS 1000-11
This course traces the influence of scientific, medical and religious texts on society’s binary views of sex and gender. Paying special attention to modern reification of sexuality and gender in a rigidly-fixed binary of male and female, we’ll consider how biologists and Christian intellectuals have spoken about gender and sexuality in various ways through history. The possibility that sex and gender exist on a continuum (ranging from masculine to feminine), and how that might change contemporary language, description, and approaches to non-typical gender and sexual expression, will be examined through student-centered analysis and discussion of primary scientific, medical and religious texts.