STSC 008 "According to the Kinsey Report...": The Politics of Sex and Science in Modern America
Cross-listed as HSOC 008
Offered:Spring 2008
Burnett M 3:30-6:30
Critical Speaking Seminar
Want to work on your public speaking skills? You will have a hard time keeping quiet in a critical speaking course about sex and science. We will examine how scientific research has influenced common conceptions of sex differences and sexual behavior during the last century, and how this knowledge in turn has shaped cultural conceptions of gender roles and “normal” behavior. Students will discuss, debate, and deliver formal presentations about these questions as we examine moments from the history of psychiatry, sexology, ethology, anthropology, endocrinology, genetics, sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and neuro-endocrinology.
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