Catalog Course Description

This course examines how sexual identities, communities, desires, and practices are socially, historically, and culturally constructed. We will look at how people reproduce dominant models of sexuality, as well as how a wide range of people--including lesbians, bisexuals, gay men, transgenderists, and self-described queers--contest the power that operates through dominant models of sexuality. Looking at empirical studies and theoretical texts, we will trace the paradigm shift from late 19th century sexology to early 20th century psychoanalysis, through a variety of approaches in the 1960's and 1970's to the feminist and queer theory of recent decades.

Summer Term

17 hours of Outside Work Hours per week and 5.5 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week.

Spring Term

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

Fall Term

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

Summer Term

7.5 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week and 22.5 hours of Outside Work Hours per week.