This Seminar is available to all students. No background required.  Recommended for students interested in psychology and in sexuality.

This course focuses on current issues in the psychological study of human sexuality. The course will review contemporary debates in North American psychological theory and research on human sexuality. It will begin with an overview of current theories and research methods related to the study of sexuality in psychology. It will then cover current controversies in the measurement of sexuality, theories of sexual desire, debates about sexual pathologies and treatments, the impact of technology on sexuality, and conclude with issues involving transsexual and transgender people, as well as pornography and sex work.