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Sexualities & Society Syllabus
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Sexualities syllabus
Sexualities and Society

How to Cite

O’Quinn, Jamie. 2024. “Sexualities &Amp; Society Syllabus”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, March. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/sexualities_and_society_syllabus.

Abstract

This course provides students with an introduction to the sociology of sexualities, exploring how sex and sexuality are socially constructed, experienced, regulated, and contested in society. The course is organized into three units: (1) sociological theories of sexuality, (2) sexual bodies, identities, practices, and relationship structures, and (3)...

Details

Subject Area(s):
Sex and Gender, Sexualities
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any

Usage Notes

This syllabus was designed for an in-person undergraduate elective that is cross-listed in the Sociology department and Gender & Sexuality Studies program at California State University, San Bernardino. The course had no prerequisites and met twice a week for 75 minutes during a 16-week semester. I taught this course in Spring 2024 and Fall 2023...

Learning Goals and Assessments

Learning Goal(s):

  1. Explain how social forces influence people’s experiences of sexuality in their everyday lives, as well as how people contribute to changing broader understandings of sexuality in society.
  2. Understand how sexuality is socially constructed, structurally reinforced, and shapes inequality and identity in society.
  3. Develop an intersectional sociological perspective, understanding how sexuality intersects with and is mutually constituted by other categories of difference in society, including but not limited to race/ethnicity, gender, class, nation, and ability.
  4. Evaluate theoretical and empirical research on sexualities.
  5. Analyze critical contemporary issues and social policies related to sexuality using sociological theory.

Goal Assessment(s):

  1. Writing assignments in which students apply course concepts to popular culture and reflect on their experiences through a sociological lens.
  2. Multiple-choice quizzes that evaluate students’ comprehension of the reading and lecture material.
  3. Daily in-class activities that are graded as credit/no credit to evaluate students’ engagement with the course material.
  4. Final project in which students produce a creative work that makes a critical argument about one of the core topics of the course.

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