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After completing Social Science 378, you should be able to achieve the following objectives:

  1. recognize that a multitude of sexual attitudes, beliefs, and customs for sexual practice exist within and across cultures.
  2. acknowledge diversity as a key starting point for the study of human sexualities.
  3. appreciate how culture shapes people's attitudes about sexuality.
  4. recognize that sexuality is essential to being human and a fundamental aspect of overall human well being.
  5. discuss comparative sexualities.
  6. discuss gender and sexual orientation and the implications of each on human development.
  7. discuss the impact that AIDS, abuses of power, and sexually explicit media in cross-cultural circumstances have on society.