WOMEN IN WORLD HISTORY I: FROM THE PALEOLITHIC TO 1500 (GS1010)

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Why do women have less power, make less money, and have fewer opportunities than men do? Why have women's bodies been controlled, stigmatized, and pathologized? This is the first half of a year-long investigation of the origins and impacts of gender inequality. We start with our pre-agricultural Sapiens ancestors up to the beginning of the early modern period, looking primarily but not exclusively at socio-cultural developments that shaped understandings of gender, patriarchy and the role of women in different early cultures around the world.

Code: 
GS1010
Name: 
WOMEN IN WORLD HISTORY I: FROM THE PALEOLITHIC TO 1500
Discipline: 
GS (Gender Studies)
Type: 
CCI
Level: 
Undergraduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None

Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will understand the mechanisms that enabled gender inequality in the transition to and spread of agricultural societies.
  2. Students will understand how the institution of marriage and systems of kinship partially determined women's roles in society.
  3. You will enhance your intercultural understanding of languages, cultures and the histories of local societies, and the global issues to which these relate. (CCI LO1)
  4. You will think critically about cultural and social difference. You will identify and understand power structures that determine hierarchies and inequalities relating to race, ethnicity, gender, nationhood, religion or class. (CCI LO3)

Offering(s)

Term Code Name
Fall 2024 GS1010 WOMEN IN WORLD HISTORY I: FROM THE PALEOLITHIC TO 1500

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