WOM/ANT 250

University of Wisconsin Colleges

Department of anthropology/sociology

Course Catalog Description

study of women in a variety of cultures around the world, both past and present.  Includes consideration of the sexual division of labor, marriage systems, child rearing, relationships between men and women, systems of myth and ideology concerning women’s roles and the effects of socio-economic development and rapid social change.

Number of credits, Contact Hours, Degree designation(s), Type of Delivery

Credits____3____                                                 Contact Hours_____3____            

Degree Designation(s) __________SS_____________________________                

(AP) Application and Performance, (EL) Elective, (ES) Ethnic Studies, (FA) Fine Arts, (HU) Humanities, (IS) Interdisciplinary Studies, (LS) Laboratory Sciences, (MS) Mathematical Sciences, (NS) Natural Sciences, (SS) Social Sciences,

Type of Course Delivery  __XX__lecture ______discussion _____lab _____other (please describe)___________________________________________________

Prerequisites  Not recommended for first semester freshmen, except with the consent of the instructor

UW Colleges gENERAL eDUCATION Proficiencies For this course

Please identify from the list below the proficiencies that are most closely associated with student success in this course. Please check all that apply. Individual instructors may incorporate additional proficiencies if they choose.

X__ Analytical Skills

___ Quantitative Skills

X__ Communication Skills

X__ Aesthetic Skills

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Department Learning Objectives for this course

List the objectives addressed in all sections of the course across all campuses of the institution; use as many numbers as appropriate for this particular course.  (Individual instructors may incorporate additional objectives if they choose.)

1.      To enable students to understand the role of women/men in human societies utilizing an anthropological biocultural approach.

2.      To provide students with a conceptual vocabulary and analytical skills essential for understanding the dynamic roles of women/men in human societies throughout the world.

3.      Compare the construction of gender in cultures throughout the world.

4.      To introduce students to the various anthropological methods for documenting women/men’s lives such as life histories, ethnography, and film.

5.      To enable students to apply anthropological concepts for finding solutions to   

contemporary social problems.

Representative Texts used By UW Colleges Faculty in this course

List the texts that are representative of those currently being used by faculty in the department 

            Women and Men: Cultural Constructs of Gender, Bonvillain

            A World Full of Women, Ward

            Sex and Gender in Society: Perspectives on Stratification, Nielsen

            The House of Spirits, Allende

            Waterlily, E. Deloria

            Guests of the Sheik, Fernea

            The State of Women World Altars: Women’s Status Around the Globe: Work,

            Health, Education and Personal Freedom, Seager

            The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, Shostak

            Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Brettell and Sargent

Fruit of the Motherland: Gender in an Egalitarian Society, Lepowsky

Gender and Anthropology, Mascia-Lees and Black

Major Topics covered By UW Colleges Faculty in this course

Please provide an inclusive list as this is important for transfer institutions as they make accurate evaluations of our UW Colleges courses; use as many numbers as appropriate for this particular course. 

      1. Sex and gender, biology, primates, early humans and gender

      2. Feminist theory

      3. Role of gender in anthropology

      4. Gender bias in research

      5. Women in pre-industrial societies – foragers, pastoralists, horticuluralists

      6. Women in developing countries

      7. Cultural construction of gender and personhood

            8. Motherhood (innate or learned?)

            9. Domestic worlds and public worlds/gender roles and gender ideologies

            10. Culture and sexuality/ women and myth/gender symbolism

            11. The cultural body

            12. Equality and inequality: The sexual division of labor and gender stratification

            13. Gender, property, and the state

            14. Gender, household, kinship

            15. Gender, ritual and religion

            16. Gender, politics, and reproduction

Course Requirements

Please list the activities required of all students in all sections of the course across the UW Colleges (e.g., field trip, research paper, service learning); use as many numbers as appropriate for this particular course.  Do not include requirements that vary from instructor to instructor.

1.      Writing required in the form of a term paper, research project, book review, essay exam.

2.      Exam(s)

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TRANSFER RECOMMENDATION

Indicate the department, course name and course number of equivalent courses at as many UW System institutions as appropriate for this course.  Please base your decisions on the catalog descriptions of similar courses at other UW institutions (available on the web sites for those institutions).

UW-Eau Claire           Anthropology elective        

UW-Green Bay          SOC 345 – Women, Race and Culture      

UW-La Crosse           Women Studies elective

UW-Madison _           Women Studies 322 – Women and Lifecycle: Cross-Cultural

UW-Milwaukee          ANT 250 – Women’s Roles in Cross-Cultural Perspective        

UW-Oshkosh             Anthropology elective        

UW-Parkside                         SOCA 213 – Gender and Society

UW- Platteville          Ethnic and Gender elective

UW-River Falls          ANT 221 – Global Perspective on Women

UW-Stevens Point    General elective

UW-Stout                   Anthropology elective

UW-Superior             Women Studies 310 – Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective

UW-Whitewater         Anthropology elective

DEPARTMENT CONTACT INFORMATION

Department chair______________Ron Lippi_________________________

Chair’s e-mail address__________ronald.lippi@uwc.edu______________

Chair’s phone number_________715-262-6262_______________________

Chair’s fax number____________715-261-6333_______________________

DATE COMPLETED

_______________________9/21/06_________________________________