PYC 7303 ADVANCED HUMAN SEXUALITY ACROSS CULTURES (3)

This course examines the ideologies and practices associated with sexuality from a broad perspective that incorporates various case studies about the ethnographic and clinical records. Working from the argument that much of human sexual behavior is culturally constructed rather than biologically determined, the course invites students to expand their notion of the "normal" and to consider the human condition from a cross-cultural perspective. Topics discussed include cross-cultural varieties of transgender experience, same-sex sexualities, and heteronormative identities. The second section of this course investigates the differences between kink sexualities, paraphilia, and sexual dysfunction.