SOCY-194 Fundamentals of Human Sexuality

Credits 3 / 3 Contact Hours
Pre-requisite: Placement into RDNG-030 (ACSR-030) or successful completion of RDNG-016 or ACLT-074 with a minimum grade of 3.0.
This course teaches the understanding of accurate cognitive information and understanding of human sexuality. An integrated view of sex which includes in its scope the biological psychological and socio-cultural as well as existential aspects of sex. Draws information from various life sciences and social sciences even though the majority of the content has sociological orientation.

Course Outcomes
Competencies (Content and transferable skills you must master this term to become competent in this subject and therefore pass the course)

Unit One: Sexual History, Sexual Inquiry, Gender, and Sexual Anatomy • Evaluate the history of sexuality in human social life • Evaluate biological, cognitive, cultural, feminist, and sociological theories on human sexuality • Conceptualize research methods in human sexuality • Assess distinctions of masculinity, femininity, and androgyny in gender • Distinguish internal and external sexual and reproductive organs by sex • Assess the role of puberty in both sexes • Determine sexual response in both sexes • Assess sexual and reproductive health by sex

Unit Two: Relationships and Sexual Development • Evaluate child psychosexual development and sexual behavior • Conceptualize adult sexual relationships • Assess the affect of ethnicity on sexual expression • Distinguish research on sexual arousal response • Identify common patterns in sexual expression • Evaluate models of sexual orientation • Contrast current and historical values concerning same-sex relationships • Discuss communication patterns in relationships • Evaluate historical depictions of love • Conceptualize theoretical perspectives on love

Unit Three: Challenges in Human Sexuality • Discuss the history and the future of contraception • Explain the function, advantages, and disadvantages of contraceptives • Describe the historical development of abortion • Identify the social-psychological factors associated with abortion • Distinguish types of sexual dysfunction • Evaluate sexual dysfunction according to physical and psychological condition • Distinguish types of sexually transmitted infections • Identify sexually transmitted diseases • Conceptualize cross-cultural factors of sexually transmitted disease • Assess paraphillic behaviors • Identify unique patterns in cross-cultural sexual expression