2020-2021 Academic Catalog 
    
    Oct 30, 2024  
2020-2021 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HST 146 - Introduction to History: Sexuality in U.S. History

1 course unit
This course is based on the central idea that sexuality is a social category that is historically specific and changes over time and place.  To this end, this course examines sexuality in history from the period of  early colonization to contemporary America.  Broadly, the course includes four main objectives: to read primary and secondary sources that reflect a variety of ways in which sexuality has been discussed in education, religion, law, government, medicine, science and popular culture; to consider popular attitudes and responses to these discussions and their relationship to other social relations and forms of social difference such as race, gender, and class; to obtain a basic understanding of the processes of historical change that create different conceptions of sexuality; to gain greater insight into the relationship between past and  present meanings of sexuality.
Meets general academic requirement HU.



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