Upon successful completion of the course, students should understand key issues in sex and gender in America and diverse cultures throughout the world, and demonstrate that they understand major themes in the anthropology of sex and gender . Students should apply culture relativism rather than ethnocentrism when dealing with people of varying cultures and ethnicities, genders, sexual, reproductive and marriage practices.
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Understand the role of cultural diversity in expectations about sexual behavior, gender scripts, marriage and reproduction.
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Identify key issues in sexuality and gender in human cultures, including our own.
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Identify the cultural aspects of gender in social, professional and economic institutions, including the circumscription of of some genders in access to resources, health care, education, careers, social and political power, and even basic civil or human rights.
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Employ cultural relativism in investigating and understanding variation in sex, gender, marriage and reproduction, in their own culture as well as cultures throughout the world.
