BC3 Academic Catalog: 2024-2025
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HLTH 115 - Human Sexuality 3 Credits: (3 lecture)
Course Description
The course is designed to survey a broad range of information about human sexuality from biological, psychological, sociological, religious and medical perspectives.
Text
Yaber, William and Sayad, Barbara. (2022). Human Sexuality: Diversity in Contemporary Society. 11th ed. New York: McGraw Hill.
Objectives
The student will be able to:
A. Communicate beliefs and feelings about sexuality.
B. Show knowledge that human sexuality is an integral part of a healthy personality.
C. Explain how psycho-sexual-social systems interrelate with sexuality, reproduction, health, and sexual maturation.
D. Evaluate different knowledges, values, and practices.
E. Explain how the family, religion, culture, and society affect the sexuality of the sexual development.
F. List and compare the current issues of human sexuality to past practice.
Content
A. History of Sexuality
B. Anatomy
C. Relationships
D. Infertility
E. Conception
F. Pregnancy
G. Childbirth
H. Contraceptives
I. STD
J. Abortion
K. Sex and the Law, and Asexual Behaviors
Student Evaluation
A. 6 exams (worth 400 points)
B. Opinion paper (worth 25 points)
C. Attendance (worth 30 points T/R and 45 points MWF)
D. Participation (worth 20 points)
Overall Grading Scale
T/R MWF
475-428 = A 490-441 = A
427-380 = B 440-392 = B
379-333 = C 391-343 = C
332-285 = D 342-294 = D
Below = F Below = F
** Only written documentation from a doctor, judge, or a death notice will entice a student to make up a regular exam. Without documentation, then the student must take a comprehensive final exam.
*** If a student misses more than one exam without documentation, it will result in a failure for the class.Bibliography
Gagnon, J. H. Sexual Conduct: As Today’s Memory Serves. Sexualities, 2 (1), 115-126, 1999.
Holden, C. Winning with Testosterone. Science, 269, 1341-1342, 1995.
Irvine, Janice M. Sexual Cultures and the Construction of Adolescent Identities. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.
Keye, W. R. Medical Aspects of Infertility for the Counselor. In L. H. Burns and S. N. Covington (eds), Infertility Counseling: A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians. (pp. 27-46). New York: Parthenon, 1999.
Ladas, A. K. The G Spot. CliniScope, 3, 1-4, 1997.
Layne, L. L. Transformative Motherhood: On Giving and Getting in a Consumer Culture. New York: University Press, 1999.
Piaget, J. The Moral Judgement of the Child. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1932.
Podell, Janet, ed. Abortion. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1990.
Russett, Cynthia Eagle. Sexual Science. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.
Sadker, Myra. Failing at Fairness: How America’s Schools Cheat Girls. New York:Macmillan, 1994.
Skeen, D. Different Sexual Worlds: Contemporary Case Studies of Sexuality. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 1999.
Turner, R. Finding the Inner Swine. Newsweek, 52-53. (February 1, 1999).
Whitmire, L. E., L. L. Harlow, K. Quina and P. J. Morokoff, Childhood Trauma and HIV: Women at Risk. Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel, 1999.
Zucker, K. J. Intersexuality and Gender Identity Differentiation. Annual Review of Sex Research. 9, 1-69, 2000.
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