LLC 613 - Language, Gender and Culture

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This course provides an in-depth understanding of how gender and language are integrated into the fabric of cultures and societies and how sociocultural contexts give meaning to linguistic practices and to gender categories. Students will examine and evaluate a diverse body of literature and scholarship from the fields of linguistics, anthropology, gender studies, and sociology that bear on these issues. Critical attention will be paid to understanding the roles of language and gender in the U.S. context, especially with regard to the U.S. social institutions of education and the media; we will also explore relationships between language and gender in a range of other Western and non-Western cultures. Students will apply what they have learned in the course to final projects that may be research-based or outreach-based.
Note: Also listed as GWST 613 and MLL 613.