HCS 340 - Gender and Communication Credits: 3

A performance based course that explores messages about sex, gender, and communication. This course investigates the similarities and differences in the ways women and men communicate by distinguishing between ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ and considering the socializing agents that may influence the manner in which we communicate. In addition, students in this course explore how gender is both created through communication and communicated in interactions. Students may select communication theories or levels of interaction to explore how gender is communicated, and consequently constructed and performed, including (but not limited to) personal relationships and groups, the workplace, education, and mass media.