SOCY-194 Fundamentals of Human Sexuality

Credits 3 / 3 Contact Hours
Pre-requisite: Placement into ACRD-090, ACRD-091 or ACRD-092, completion of ELAP-110 with a minimum grade of 2.0, or successful completion of ACRD-080.
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