Sociology Of Sex And Sexualities

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This course focuses on sociological understandings of sex and sexualities by identifying existing tensions and paradoxes in how sex and sexualities are socially understood, discusses, experienced, and portrayed. Topics under study may include: distinctions between sexual behaviors and sexual identities; the historical invention of sexual-identity categories; sex work; sexualized violence; and interactions of other social identities (e.g., race/ethnicity, class, age, gender) with sex and sexualities. This course also examines the ways in which U.S. social laws, policies, education, public opinion, media, religion, and technology work to construct, shape, recognize, and regulate the existing diversity of sex and sexualities. Not open to students with credit in SOC 31700. Prerequisite(s): SOC 10000 FOR LEVEL UG WITH MIN. GRADE OF D- Course Learning Outcomes 1. Critique binaries of sex using evidence from the physical and social sciences. 2. Describe and differentiate between the concepts of sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, and sexuality. 3. Identify and distinguish between, political, moral, and empirical understandings of sex and sexualities. 4. Consider the ways in which sex, race/ethnicity, gender, class, sexual orientation, age, ability and other factors intersect to shape the experiences and opportunities of individuals and groups. View Class Schedule