SOC 293 - Human Sexualities

Lecture - Lab - Credit Hours: 3-0-3
This course examines such various aspects of human sexualities as sexuality and the law, female and male sexual anatomy, physiology, sexual arousal and sexual response, gender and sexualities, sensuality and sexual enhancement, contraception and politics of contraceptives, conception, pregnancy, and childbirth, and sexual coercion and control. Life span sexual development, cultural/social construction of sexual desire, cultural/social regulation of sexualities, and sexual orientations will be explored and various competing theoretical perspectives and empirical research findings will be presented.