Summer 2014

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Spring 2016

Spring 2017

Fall 2017

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This course is designed to look at human sexuality (or more accurately - sexualities) from a sociological perspective.  That is to say that we will be examining the ways in which human sexuality is shaped and constructed in social contexts.  

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Throughout the course we will explore three main issues as they relate to sexualities:

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• Behaviors - what do people acutally do when they have sex?  (This is far more complicated that you might think at first glance!)

• Identities - how do these behaviors inform the types of sexual identities we develop?  This extends far beyond a simple binary of straight or gay; we develop complex sexual identities, of varying levels of fixity or fluidity, depending on a host of factors.

• Inequalities - how do these behaviors and identities inform larger pattern of inequality?  Why does it seem that some sexualities are "better than others to some people?  How do our sexual identities and behaviors serve as a foundation for the unequal distribution of goods - symbolic or real, material or emotion - in our society?