SOCI 2150 - Metropolitan Community College

METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
COURSE OUTLINE FORM
COURSE TITLE Survey of Human Sexuality
COURSE PREFIX AND NO.
PSYC/SOCI 2150 LEC 4.5
LAB
0 CREDIT HOURS 4.5
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COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is a survey of the topic of human sexuality. The student is presented with materials concerning the
biological, psychological, and socio-cultural facets of sexual behavior. Cross-listed as SOC 246.
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COURSE PREREQUISITES:
PSYC 1010 or SOCI 1010
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RATIONALE:
The course has been designed as a transfer elective for students pursuing academic transfer degrees and as a
supporting course for several programs of study including but not limited to Criminal Justice, Human Services, and
Nursing.
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REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS and/or MATERIALS:
Title:
Sexual Interactions
Edition:
Fifth Edition
Author:
Algeier and Algeier
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin
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Attached course outline written by: H. Lynn Bradman
Date: 5/2001
Reviewed/Revised by:
Date:
Effective quarter of course outline:
05/FA
Dean
Date:
Date:
M. Jane Franklin
Course Objectives, Topical Unit Outlines, and Unit Objectives must be attached to this form.
COURSE OBJECTIVES/TOPICAL UNIT OUTLINE/UNIT OBJECTIVES
TITLE:
Survey of Human Sexuality
PREFIX/NO.
PSYC/SOCI 2150
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
At the completion of this course, each student will be able to:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of human sexuality from an historical perspective.
2. Compare and contrast several explanatory theories toward human sexuality including the
evolutionary, psychoanalytic, learning, and sociological approaches.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the history of and current methods used by science in sex
research.
4. Describe male and female sexual anatomy and physiology.
5. Understand various aspects of human sexual behavior including the sources of sexual pleasure
and physical reactions during sexual response.
6. Examine and understand the issues surrounding arousal and communication and love
7. Demonstrate an understand and describe human sexual development from conception through
adulthood.
8. Describe and understand the process of pregnancy and birth.
9. Discuss various issues related to contraception both from an historical and a current
perspective.
10. Understand sexual orientation and describe human variation in sexual orientation.
11. Develop an awareness of the types of sexual dysfunction and therapies.
12. Develop an accurate knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases including an understanding of
safe-sex practices.
13. Understand and describe atypical sexual activity.
14. Develop an awareness and knowledge of current social and legal issues surrounding sex
including sexual harassment, assault and abuse, and sex for profit.
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TOPICAL UNIT OUTLINE:
1. Sexual Interactions: Realities and Myths
Beliefs About the Need to Control Sexual Expression
Beliefs About Fertility and Development
Dating and Mating
Research Spotlight: What Do You Look for in a Partner?
Highlight: Valencia Declaration on Sexual Rights
2. Contemporary Explanations of Sexuality
Evolutionary Approaches
Psychoanalytic Approaches
Learning Approaches
Sociological Approaches
Theories, Politics, and Morality
3. Research on Sexuality
The Rise of Science
The Impact of Societal Beliefs, Political Attitudes, and Ethical Issues on Research
Research Spotlight: Ethical Principles and the Tuskegee Study
Understanding the Process of Sex Research
Measurement in Sex Research
Evaluating Results of Studies of Sexuality
4. Sexual Anatomy and Physiology
Sexual Anatomy
Hormones and the Endocrine System
The Nervous System
5. Sexual Behavior
Sources of Sexual Pleasure
Sexual Responses
Highlight: Physical Reactions During Sexual Response
6. Arousal and Communication
Sources of Arousal
Communication About Sexuality
Highlight: Negotiating a Sexual Relationship
7. Loving Sexual Interactions
Being Loved: Early Experience
Self-Love
Loving Others
Love as Dependency, and Jealousy
Loving Sexual Interactions
8. Sexual Differentiation and Development
Fertilization
Sex Chromosomes and Genetic Sex
Prenatal Development
Typical Sexual Differentiation
Highlight: The Major Sex Hormones
Atypical Sexual Differentiation
Secondary Sexual Characteristics
Highlight: Meanings of Menarche
Sexual Differentiation and Gender Identity
9. Pregnancy and Birth
Pregnancy
Highlight: Tests for Identifying Fetal Abnormalities
Labor and Birth
Highlight: A Personal Account of Childbirth
Postpartum Events and Decisions
10. Contraception
The Development and Use of Modern Contraceptives
Methods of Contraception
Sterilization
Contraceptive Techniques of the Future
11. Resolving Unwanted Pregnancy
Unintended Pregnancy
Abortion: A Human Dilemma
Research Spotlight: Abortion Case Histories
Highlight: The Legal Status of Abortion in the United States
Abortion: The Process
Unintended Parenthood
12. Sexuality in Childhood and Adolescence
Understanding Childhood Sexuality
Theories About the Development of Gender and Sexuality
Infancy
Early Childhood
Preschool Years
Middle to Late Childhood
Research Spotlight: The Relationship Between the Provision of Sex and Contraceptive
Education and Unwanted Pregnancies in Western Nations
Adolescence
Gender Role Identification in Adolescence
13. Sexuality in Adulthood
Young Adulthood
Marriage and Long-Term Commitments
Long-Term Relationships
Midlife Sexuality
Old Age
14. Variations in Sexual Orientation
What Is Sexual Orientation?
Highlight: Variations in Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Highlight: Rigid Versus Fluid Definitions of Orientation
Explanations of Sexual Orientation
Sexual Orientation and Adjustment
Discrimination and Gay Liberation
Bisexuality
15. Sexual Dysfunctions and Therapy
Sexual Dysfunction: Contributing Factors
Highlight: Disorders, Diseases, and Other Factors That Can Affect Sexual Functioning
Types of Sexual Dysfunction
Sex Therapy
16. Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Attitudes Toward Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Highlight: How Accurate Is Your Knowledge of HIV/AIDS?
Bacterial Infections
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Highlight: An Epidemic of Stigma
Highlight: Being Tested for HIV Antibodies
Other Viral STDs
Parasitic Infections
Safer-Sex Practices: Reducing the Risk of Contracting STDs
17. Atypical Sexual Activity
The Paraphilias
The Noninvasive Consensual Paraphilias
Highlight: Pain and Sexual Arousal
The Invasive Paraphilias
Highlight: Uncommon Paraphilias
Treatment of the Invasive Paraphilias
18. Sexual Harassment
Sexual Harassment: What Is It?
Highlight: Examples of Sexual Harassment?
Research Spotlight: Variations in Judgments of Sexual Harassment
Reducing Sexual Harassment
19. Sexual Assault and Abuse
Sexual Assault
Child-Adult Sexual Contacts
Long-Term Correlates of Child-Adult Sexual Contacts
20. Sex for Profit
The Effects of Erotica
Highlight: Public Policy and Erotica
Prostitution
Highlight: Prostitution Across Cultures
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UNIT OBJECTIVES:
UNIT 1 Chapters 1-3
A. Demonstrate an understanding of human sexuality from an historical perspective.
B. Compare and contrast several explanatory theories toward human sexuality including the
evolutionary, psychoanalytic, learning, and sociological approaches.
C. Demonstrate an understanding of the history of and current methods used by science in sex
research.
UNIT 2 Chapters 4-7
A. Describe male and female sexual anatomy and physiology.
B. Understand various aspects of human sexual behavior including the sources of sexual
pleasure and physical reactions during sexual response.
C. Examine and understand the issues surrounding arousal and communication and love
UNIT 3 Chapters 8 -11
A. Demonstrate an understanding and describe human sexual development from conception
through adulthood.
B. Describe and understand the process of pregnancy and birth.
C. Discuss various issues related to contraception both from an historical and a current
perspective.
UNIT 4 Chapters12-15
A. Understand human sexuality from adolescence through adulthood
B. Understand and describe human variation in sexual orientation.
C. Develop an awareness of the types of sexual dysfunction and therapies.
UNIT 5 Chapters 16-20
A. Develop an accurate knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases including an understanding
of safe-sex practices.
B. Understand and describe atypical sexual activity.
C. Develop an awareness and knowledge of current social and legal issues surrounding sex
including sexual harassment, assault and abuse, and sex for profit.
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COURSE REQUIREMENTS/EVALUATION
Upon completion of the objectives for this online course the students will have moved from the
knowledge through the evaluation levels of cognition relative to the study of human sexuality Also,
students are required to successfully complete tests and out-of-class and online assignments and
discussions as specified by the instructor in the course syllabus. Evaluation will be based on written
work, exams, and appropriate online participation as specified by the instructor..
COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. Demonstrate an understanding of human
sexuality from an historical perspective.
ASSESSMENT MEASURES
Written assignments, exams, participation in online
discussion and written interactions with instructor and
other class participants.
2. Compare and contrast several explanatory
theories toward human sexuality including the
evolutionary, psychoanalytic, learning, and
sociological approaches.
Written assignments, exams, participation in online
discussion and written interactions with instructor and
other class participants.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the history of
and current methods used by science in sex
research.
Written assignments, exams, participation in online
discussion and written interactions with instructor and
other class participants.
4. Describe male and female sexual anatomy and
physiology.
Written assignments, exams.
5. Understand various aspects of human sexual
behavior including the sources of sexual pleasure
Written assignments, exams, participation in online
discussion and written interactions with instructor and
other class participants.
and physical reactions during sexual response.
6. Examine and understand the issues
surrounding arousal and communication and love
Written assignments, exams, participation in online
discussion and written interactions with instructor and
other class participants.
7. Demonstrate an understanding of and describe
human sexual development from conception
through adulthood.
Written assignments, exams, participation in online
discussion and written interactions with instructor and
other class participants.
8.Describe and understand the process of
pregnancy and birth.
Written assignments, exams, participation in online
discussion and written interactions with instructor and
other class participants.
9. Discuss various issues related to contraception
both from an historical and a current perspective.
Written assignments, exams, participation in online
discussion and written interactions with instructor and
other class participants.
10. Understand sexual orientation and describe
human variation in sexual orientation.
Written assignments, exams, participation in online
discussion and written interactions with instructor and
other class participants.
11. Develop an awareness of the types of sexual
dysfunction and therapies.
Written assignments, exams, participation in online
discussion and written interactions with instructor and
other class participants.
12. Develop an accurate knowledge of sexually
transmitted diseases including an understanding
of safe-sex practices.
Written assignments, exams, participation in online
discussion and written interactions with instructor and
other class participants.
13. Understand and describe atypical sexual
activity.
Written assignments, exams, participation in online
discussion and written interactions with instructor and
other class participants.
14. Develop an awareness and knowledge of
current social and legal issues surrounding sex
including sexual harassment, assault and abuse,
and sex for profit.
Written assignments, exams, participation in online
discussion and written interactions with instructor and
other class participants.