Anthropology (ANTH) 375

The Anthropology of Gender (Revision 5)

Delivery Mode: Individualized study online

Credits: 3

Area of Study: Social Science

Prerequisite: Students must have completed Athabasca University's ANTH 275, or SOCI 287, or an equivalent course from another institution before registering in this course.

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences

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ANTH 375 has a Challenge for Credit option.

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Overview

Anthropology 375: The Anthropology of Gender focuses on the cultural and social construction of gender and gender ideologies, the fluidity of gender categories, and the performative aspects of gender.

Outline

Unit 1: Engendering Fieldwork
Unit 2: Biology, Culture, and the Production of Gender
Unit 3: Gender and Work
Unit 4: The Work of Gender
Unit 5: Gender, Healing, and Religion
Unit 6: Gender Identities and Sexuality
Unit 7: Colonialism, Globalization, and Gender

Evaluation

To receive credit for ANTH 375, you must complete three assignments and a final exam and you must obtain at least D (50 percent) on each assignment and on the final examination.

Activity	Weighting
Assignment 1 Response Paper	15%
Assignment 2 Research Paper	35%
Assignment 3 Ethnography Review	25%
Final Exam	25%
Total	100%

The final examination for this course must be taken online with an AU-approved exam invigilator at an approved invigilation centre. It is your responsibility to ensure your chosen invigilation centre can accommodate online exams. For a list of invigilators who can accommodate online exams, visit the Exam Invigilation Network.

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.

Course Materials

Brettell, Caroline B., and Carolyn F. Sargent, eds. 2013. Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective, 6^th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall. [Print].

Ward, Martha and Monica Edelstein. 2014. A World Full of Women, 6^th ed. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc. [Print].

Online Materials

All other materials required for this course can be accessed online through the course website.

Challenge for Credit Overview

The Challenge for Credit process allows you to demonstrate that you have acquired a command of the general subject matter, knowledge, intellectual and/or other skills that would normally be found in a university-level course.

Full information about Challenge for Credit can be found in the Undergraduate Calendar.

Challenge Evaluation

To receive credit for the Anth 375 challenge registration students must complete three assignments and a final exam and receive at least a D (50 percent) on the final exam and an overall course grade of D (50 percent). The weightings of each activity are listed below:

Activity	Weighting
Assignment 1 (Response Paper)	15%
Assignment 2 (Research Paper)	35%
Assignment 3 (Ethnography Review)	25%
Final Exam	25%
Total	100%

The final exam is a Take Home exam.

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Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized-study counterparts.

Opened in Revision 5, May 12, 2015.

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