After completing Social Science 378, you should be able to achieve the following objectives:
- recognize that a multitude of sexual attitudes, beliefs, and customs for sexual practice exist within and across cultures.
- acknowledge diversity as a key starting point for the study of human sexualities.
- appreciate how culture shapes people's attitudes about sexuality.
- recognize that sexuality is essential to being human and a fundamental aspect of overall human well being.
- discuss comparative sexualities.
- discuss gender and sexual orientation and the implications of each on human development.
- discuss the impact that AIDS, abuses of power, and sexually explicit media in cross-cultural circumstances have on society.