JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
State University of New York
Master Course Syllabus
Course Title: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender
Course Abbreviation and Number: SOC 2590
Credit Hours: 3
Division: SSBU
Course Type: Lecture
Course Description: Students will learn to sex, sexuality, or gender, practices and concepts both from around
the world and here in the United States. Students will be able to compare and contrast people's understanding of
the body and its development, how people come to understand their own sex and gender characteristics, and the
place that each one of us occupies in terms of our sex, sexuality, and gender behaviors.
Corerequisite: ENG 1530.
Course Attributes: E,L,S,SOSC,SR,VEDP
(C=Career, E=Elective, H=Humanities, HON=Honors, L=Liberal Arts & Sciences, N=Mathematics/Sciences, S=Social Sciences, SR=Scientific Reasoning,
VEDP=Values, Ethics & Diverse Perspectives)
4-letter codes represent SUNY General Education Courses, please see below to determine which SUNY General Education requirement(s) is met.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Students who demonstrate understand can:
1. Evaluate the effects of social institutions and cultural expectations on sex, sexuality, and gender identities and
practices.
2. Identify how expectations for sex, sexuality, and gender may change through time, and the significance of that
change.
Scientific Reasoning
1. Demonstrate understanding of the methods scientists and social scientists use to explore natural or social
phenomena, including observation, hypothesis development, measurement and data collection,
experimentation, evaluation of evidence, and employment of mathematical and interpretive analysis.
Values, Ethics, and Diverse Perspectives Student Learning Outcomes:
1. Values – Students who demonstrate understanding can weigh the relative importance of ideas, actions or
elements associated with a discipline.
2. Ethics – Students who demonstrate understanding can work to distinguish right from wrong within the bounds
of a discipline.
3. Diverse perspectives – Students who demonstrate understanding can engage in a comparative study of
viewpoints, attitudes, or assumptions significant to a discipline, including those which are minority or
unpopular.
Additional Student Learning Outcomes that meet SUNY General Education Requirements:
Does this course meet a SUNY General Education requirement(s)?
Yes
Social Sciences
A pre-requisite for this course is approved for the SUNY General Education category listed. This course will
reinforce the student learning outcomes for this category.
Topical Outline:
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Introduction and a discussion of ethics
Human evolution
Boy or Girl? How societies classify sex and
gender.
The Importance of Being Gendered
Childhood Sexuality
Puberty/ Creating Sex and Gender
More Categories!
Adolescent Sexuality
Library—HRAF training
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Menstruation
Fertility/Infertility
Beauty
Marriage and Kinship
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Parenthood
Adult Sex, Sexuality, and Gender—The
Question of Relationships and Power
Women
Men
Other Sex/Gender Categories
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In-Between
Sex and Gender and the Sacred
Religion and Ritual
A Journey Through Two Indonesian
Weddings
Communities and Change
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The Climateric: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender
in Older People
―Winunhcala: Old Age‖
Signatures and Dates:
Discipline Director: Shannon Bessette
Date: 4.3.14
Assistant Dean:
Date: 4.3.14
Academic Affairs: CR
Date: 4.3.14
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Effective Date: Fall 2014