LLC 613: Language, Gender & Sexuality - Winter 2016

In this course, students will gain an in-depth understanding of how language, gender, and sexuality are integrated into the fabric of cultures and societies. The course examines how sociocultural contexts give meaning to linguistic practices, to categories of gender and sexuality, and to the construction of gender, sexual, and other identities.

Students will have the opportunity to examine and evaluate a diverse body of scholarship from linguistics, anthropology, gender, and sexuality within the context of the United States, especially in regard to education and the media. Students will also have the opportunity to explore relationships between language, gender, and sexuality throughout a range of other Western and non-Western cultures.