Catalog Course Description

This course considers how sexual identities, communities, desires, and practices are socially, historically, and culturally constructed. We will explore the tension between our sense of self and the larger social structures, cultures, and communities in which we are embedded. We will examine how people make sense of sexual feelings, behaviors, and identities within larger sociocultural contexts, looking at structural dynamics like gender norms, heteronormativity, racial hierarchies, class cultures, scientific knowledge, institutional constraints, and cultural spheres and how these impact individuals’ understanding of their own sexuality, including how collective groups challenge, expand, and transform the boundaries of sexuality.

Summer Term

0 to 2 hours of The exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week and 7.5 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week and 22.5 to 20.5 hours of Outside Work Hours per week.

Summer Term

5.5 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week and 17 to 15 hours of Outside Work Hours per week and 0 to 2 hours of The exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.

Spring Term

3 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week and 9 to 7 hours of Outside Work Hours per week and 0 to 2 hours of The exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.

Fall Term

3 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week and 9 to 7 hours of Outside Work Hours per week and 0 to 2 hours of The exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.