Sex, Gender, Space and Place

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture) This course examines, from interdisciplinary perspectives including those of Women's and Gender Studies, Geography and Environmental Studies, relationships among sex, gender, space and place in societies, cultures, environments and ecosystems. Selected relevant topics will be considered, such as ecofeminism, the cultural politics and political geography of sex and sexual identities, the gendering and sexing of city landscape and architecture, notions of public and private space, and space/place in the sociocultural construction of femininity and masculinity. We will consider how sex, gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and other aspects of identity affect the transformation of space into place. Cross-listed: GEOG-2416(3) and ENV-2416(3). Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and ENV-2416 | GEOG-2416. Requisite Courses: GEOG-1105 or GEOG-1102 or GEOG-1103, or ENV-1600, or WGS-1232 or permission of the instructor or permission of the chair [prerequisite(s)].