PHIL 275 Thinking Gender, Sex, and Love
- Level 2 or above
None.
one-way Exclusions
- Lectures
- Most course readings are available electronically for free through the course website. Students must purchase an electronic copy of the Symposium through a paywall linked to the course website.
Instructor: Jacqueline Davies
What is at stake in how we think about gender, sex, and love? How do these concepts inform each other? What else defines them? Using a classic text (Plato’s Symposium) and diverse contemporary texts (e.g. by Beth Brant, Audre Lorde, Kim TallBear, and Joan Roughgarden) we examine personal and cultural assumptions and alternative possibilities. We ask especially what eros has to do with the love of wisdom. Old and new insights are explored. Careful reading and critical thinking skills are strongly emphasized.
Learning Outcomes
Assessments
Assessments
Regular attendance and classroom engagement are expected as well as online reading assignments, in-class quizzes and writing exercises and a final exam. Skills focus includes active reading and listening, advanced reading comprehension, the ability to articulate, interrogate, and evaluate textually well-informed and well-reasoned responses to questions raised by our engagement with the texts.