Catalog Course Description

This course focuses on the legal regulation of sexuality, and the social and historical norms and frameworks that affect its intersection with sex, gender, race, disability, and class. We will critically examine how the law shapes sexuality and how sexuality shapes the law. Our subject matter is mostly constitutional, covering sexuality’s intersection with privacy, freedom of expression, gender identity and expression, equal protection, reproduction, kinship, and family formation, among other subjects. We will study case law, legal articles, and other texts (including visual works) that critically engage issues of sexuality, citizenship, nationhood, religion, and the public and private spheres domestically and internationally.

Summer Term

8 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week and 22 hours of Outside Work Hours per week.

Fall Term

9 hours of Outside Work Hours per week and 3 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week.

Spring Term

9 hours of Outside Work Hours per week and 3 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week.