Addresses that central social institution which establishes systems of meaning and, thereby, the ways in which a culture constructs its social realities. Explores the ways in which human sexual identity is constructed, biologically, medically, and socially, and the variety of lifestyle subcultures that have evolved, both historically and currently, to express the great diversity of human sexual expression. A series of courses that examine the persistence and disappearance of varieties of cultural forms and expressions. Cultural Studies I deals with work, gender, religion, and literature. Subsequent courses continue the study of varieties of interrelated social phenomena.
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