SOC 3730 - Sociology of Sexualities

• Students will be able to explain and discuss how sexuality and sexual identities are socially constructed.
• Students will be able to identify and discuss their own cultural rules and biases regarding sexuality.
• Students will be able to identify the ways in which social inequalities result from constructions of sexuality and sexual identities.
• Students will be able to critically evaluate the social control of sexuality and its effects on individuals and society.
• Students will be able to describe and discuss the intersections of sexuality with other social categories such as gender, race, class, and place, and act in a supportive manner that recognizes the feelings of another cultural group.
• Students will be able to apply sociological perspectives to analyze how sexuality operates in and through social institutions and systems of power.
• Students will be able to analyze social movements related to sexuality and their impact on society.
• Students will be able to discuss the complexity of elements important to members of other cultures in relation to sexuality.
• Students will be able to develop complex questions of other cultures related to sexuality and develop answers that reflect multiple cultural perspectives.
• Students will be able to identify cultural differences in verbal and non-verbal communication related to sexuality and discuss possibilities for shared understanding based on those differences.
• Students will be able to initiate and develop interactions with culturally different others related to sexuality, while suspending judgment in valuing their interactions with culturally different others.