School of Communication and Media
Undergraduate

Term: Fall 2026
Session: 2nd 8 Week On-ground (Oct 26 - Dec 18)
Start Date: Monday, Oct 26, 2026
End Date: Friday, Dec 18, 2026
Availability: On Campus
Day(s): Tues.
Time: 11:30 AM to 01:30 PM

This course is designed to introduce students to issues of sex (biology) and gender (social) in society and in organizations. Stereotypes persist about how men and women should ?be? and act in public. We hold images and beliefs in our minds about sex and gender often subconsciously. Many of them come from our patriarchal social system even as patriarchy has come under some scrutiny lately. Others come from our cultural traditions and religion. We will discuss manhood and masculinities as well as womanhood and femininities and conformity. Also in this course students will gain understanding about what patriarchy is and how it unconsciously (and through violence) controls our culture; how power is gained maintained and used by the sexes; and how beliefs about sex and gender affect our beliefs about leadership and the performance of leadership in organizations and society.