The Center for Law, Justice and Culture and the Making and Breaking the Law Theme announce a new History course available to all sophomores, juniors and seniors in Fall 2016.
The course is HIST 3715: Sex, Crime and Deviance.
This course is open to students of all majors. It will have special relevance to students interested in criminality from a comparative historical perspective, and students studying fields such as Anthropology, History, Sociology, Pre-Law Studies, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies.
The course focuses on early modern Europe, and it contrasts “imaginary” crimes such as witchcraft with “real” crimes such as infanticide and robbery. The course also examines the impact of gender, ethnicity, class and sexual orientation can have on those issues. Students will trace those crimes from about 1200-1600. They will look at the long-term changes in the definitions, frequency and prosecution of sexuality, deviance and crime, while also taking into account the economy, social structure, governmental involvement, religion and cultural changes.
Offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:30-11:50 a.m., this course is taught by Michele Clouse, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of History. Clouse has been recognized as an Outstanding Undergraduate Adviser for the College of Arts & Sciences.
Clouse’s research interests include early modern Europe, the intersection between politics and intellectual culture, scientific and medical history, the legal and institutional history of the early modern state, and the history of women and other marginalized figures in the medical field.
She is currently studying personnel, patients and services offered at hospitals in early modern Spain.
She specializes in the history of medicine, specifically focusing on the intersection of medical ideas and politics, law and society from 1400 and 1700.
For more information about HIST 3715: Sex, Crime and Deviance, visit the Ohio University Fall 2016 Course Catalog.
This course is part of the Making and Breaking the Law Theme. It is also an elective for the Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Certificate.
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