Amy Meeks

Basic problems and principles of human experience and behavior. Three lecture hours a week for one semester, or the equivalent in independent study.

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This course is designed to introduce you to the field of human sexuality. In doing so, we will discuss various aspects of sexuality and how those aspects interact with psychological principles. Because this is a survey course, we will not be able to go into great detail on each of these topics. Instead, the goal is to cover the main points and provide you with a good working knowledge that will help you understand human sexuality as a discipline and as a science. You will find that this working knowledge will add to your understanding of how complex and fascinating the human person can be. As we walk through this course together, my hope is that you encounter new ideas and facts, incorporate this new material into your existing values and beliefs, and emerge at the end of this semester more aware of human sexuality and its’ impact on our lives. It is an incredibly rich area that touches us in a myriad of ways. Whenever possible, we will use in-class projects, out-of-class assignments, demonstrations, and videos to illustrate key concepts in the course.

COURSE GOALS

This course is designed to introduce you to the field of human sexuality. In doing

so, we will discuss various aspects of sexuality and how those aspects interact with

psychological principles. Because this is a survey course, we will not be able to go into

great detail on each of these topics. The goal,instead is to cover the main points and give

you a good working knowledge that will help you understand human sexuality as a

discipline and as a science. You will find that this working knowledge will add to your

understanding of how complex and fascinating the human person can be. As we walk

through this course together, my hope is that you encounter new ideas and facts,

incorporate this new material into your existing values and beliefs, and emerge at the end

of this semester more aware of human sexuality and its’ impact on our lives. It is an

incredibly rich field that touches us in a myriad of ways. Whenever possible, we will use

in-class projects, out-of-class assignments, demonstrations, and videos to illustrate key

concepts in the course.

This course is designed to introduce you to the field of human sexuality.  In doing so, we will discuss various aspects of sexuality and how those aspects interact with psychological principles.  Because this is a survey course, we will not be able to go into great detail on each of these topics.  The goal, instead, is to cover the main points and give you a good working knowledge that will help you understand human sexuality as a discipline and as a science.  You will find that this working knowledge will add to your understanding of how complex and fascinating the human person can be.

As we walk through this course together, my hope is that you encounter new ideas and facts, incorporate this new material into your existing values and beliefs, and emerge at the end of this semester more aware of human sexuality and its’ impact on our lives. It is an incredibly rich field that touches us in a myriad of ways. Whenever possible, we will use in-class projects, out-of-class assignments, demonstrations, and videos to illustrate key concepts in the course.

Textbook

UNDERSTANDING HUMAN SEXUALITY by Hyde and DeLamater
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 10th or 11th edition