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Course Syllabus

 

PSY 325A Human Sexuality (3 credits)

Fall Semester, 2006 at Houghton College

1:15 - 2:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday

Paul Young, Department of Psychology

Office: Chamberlain Center 324

Phone: 567-9308 or Ext. 3080

e-mail: paul.young@houghton.edu

Office hours:1:15 - 2:05 p.m. MWF, 10:00-10:50 TR, or by appointment, or drop in whenever I am in my office.

 

PowerPoint Slides

Set 1. Introduction. History of sexuality research.
Set 2. Sexual physiology--female
Set 3. Sexual physiology--male.
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Set 6.
Set 7. Sexual communication
Set 8. Sexual values and virtues
Set 9.
Set 10. Fertility, infertility, and contraception
Set 11. Solitary and same-gender sexuality

Links to Internet Sites

Course readings
Chapter 6:
Johns Hopkins University medical school has been a center of research and treatment of intersexuality for 30 years.  This website on sexual differentiation abnormalities is concise, thorough, and accurate.  It provides more detail than the textbook or the class can.  Read it.

Student Projects

Child Abuse, a PowerPoint presentation by Jodi Stiegelmeyer, investigates the causes of child abuse and the effects on both the victims and the perpetrators. A sensitive and balanced treatment.

Endometriosis, a PowerPoint presentation by Allissa Barnett, covers the various ways this disorder is manifested and the disruption it produces in people's lives. Includes case study material.

Etiology of homosexuality, a PowerPoint presentation by Bethany McIntyre, presents and evaluates the different theories for the sources of homosexual orientations. Like the published research, her presentation focuses on the etiology of male homosexuality.

Transsexualism, a PowerPoint presentation by Kari Whitaker. It deals with the reasons people consider sex-change surgery, the research about the outcomes of a sex change, and the reactions of family and friends of people who undergo a change in gender.

Narcolepsy, a sleeping disorder, is explained in this Website by course students Gregory Bayse and Lori Scott. This is a good sample of a Web page developed for a course project.

SIECUS is the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States. This site has a great deal of useful information, but offers a particular bias. Discern.

AASECT is the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists.

Internet Mental Health website. This site does not have information on sexual disorders, but it does provide helpful models of sound website design in the field of psychology.

Human genetics of sexual differentiation are surveyed in this NIH site, with links to the latest information in this rapidly-developing field.

 

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First posted 8 January, 1998. Last update 29 August, 2006.  Copyright Paul D. Young

 
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