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Online Class: Human Sexuality

Professor Kenneth Brownson teaches this detailed online class in Human Sexuality. The overall theme of the course focuses on responsible sexual behaviors and attitudes. Cultural and psychological dimensions have impacted sexual attitudes and practices in our culture. Cross-cultural and historical comparisons can help us understand how sexuality is culturally and historically determined.

This course is designed to familiarize you with the biological, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of human sexuality and family life. Adults who are interested in learning more about human sexuality will enjoy this course. This course will provide not only information about sexuality but also information on making your relationships better and how to educate your children.

Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish. An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion. UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service that manages all your course completions. This class has been officially reviewed by our Course Review Committee that scrutinizes course content and instructor participation. This course has received our Committee's highest rating: 4 stars.

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1.0 CEUs

Course Description

This course is designed to familiarize you with the biological, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of human sexuality and family life. The overall theme of the course focuses on responsible sexual behaviors and attitudes. Cultural and psychological dimensions have impacted sexual attitudes and practices in our culture. Cross-cultural and historical comparisons can help us understand how sexuality is culturally and historically determined.

Adults who are interested in learning more about human sexuality will enjoy this course. This course will provide not only information about sexuality but also information on making your relationships better and how to educate your children.

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This course offers 1.0 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.

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Course Lessons

Lesson 01 - Sexuality Today - Overview Human sexuality cannot be uniformly defined. Current mores and trends in human sexual behavior in the United States show a divergence between public and private views. The public view shows marked increases in permissiveness and tole
Lesson 02 - Sexual & Reproductive Anatomy - Overview The external and internal female and male reproductive anatomy have homologous as well as distinctive features. The vaginal plays a role in sexual arousal and also serves as a passageway for sperm from the penis and as the birth canal. The m
Lesson 03 - Physiology of Sexual Arousal and Response - Overview Contemporary models of sexual arousal combine research findings on psychological, cognitive and physiological factors, both external and internal, that play a part in response and arousal. These models can account for a wide range of variabil
Lesson 04 - Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth - Overview This chapter discusses conception and fetal development. Life begins with the joining of a sperm from the male, and an egg cell or ovum, from the female. Once conception has occurred, then cell is then known as a zygote. When it begins to divi
Lesson 05 - Contraception and Abortion - Overview This chapter discusses contraceptive methods. Contraceptives allow people to have sex, but also to eliminate the health risks of pregnancy, to control overpopulation, and to provide women with control over their own fertility. There are many a
Lesson 06 - Sexual Development from Birth to Adolescence - Overview There are varied theories of sexual development. There are psychoanalytic, psychosocial, and social cognitive theories. The childhood sexuality period is from birth to eight years of age. Childhood is a natural period of sexual curiosity and e
Lesson 07 - Sexual Development in Adulthood - Overview This chapter deals with sexual development in adulthood. As an individual enters adulthood, their sexual identity continues to develop. Sexual meanings, which shape sexual identity, are derived from personal experiences and from cultural messa
Lesson 08 - Gender Roles and Sexuality - Overview Gender roles and interpersonal relationships between the genders are discussed in this chapter. A person's sex is determined by their biological makeup, yet gender roles do not always match one's biological sex. A transsexual is an individual
Lesson 09 - Sexual Orientation - Overview Sexual orientation refers to a person's sexual identity, sexual behavior, and erotic and romantic feelings for one or both sexes. Alfred Kinsey mapped the dimensions of sexual orientation on a linear continuum, while Michael Storms modified hi
Lesson 10 - Love and Sexual Communication - Overview This chapter discusses love and sensual communication. Love is a term in the English language that is hard to define and widely misunderstood. Many researchers have attempted to define love using theoretical models. Sternberg proposed the tria
Lesson 11 - Sexual Coercion - Overview Sexual aggression is a significant problem in U.S. society. Rape is the occurrence of sexual intercourse by force or threat of force without the consent of the person against whom it is perpetrated. Acquaintances, dates, spouses and strangers
Lesson 12 - Sexual Dysfunction - Overview This chapter focuses on types of sexual dysfunctions. Sexual desire disorders involve absent or very limited interest in sex. Hypoactive sexual desire dysfunction and sexual aversion disorder are two types of sexual desire dysfunctions. Sexual
Lesson 13 - Commercial Sex - Overview This chapter focuses in on commercial sex. Pornography has an ever-changing definition and has varied across cultures and time. Obscenity is a legal term applied to material deemed indecent or immoral. Erotica refers to sexually explicit materia
Lesson 14 - Atypical Sexual Behavior - Overview This chapter deals with atypical sexual behavior. Paraphilias involve sexual interests that center on objects, suffering or humiliation, or nonconsenting partners. These behaviors are more commonly reported in males. Fetishism is characterized
Lesson 15 - Sexually Transmissible Infection - Overview This chapter focuses on sexually transmissible infections. Some bacterial, fungal and protozoan pathogens can cause vaginal infections and inflammations called vaginitis. These infections are usually diagnosed be a pelvic exam or examination o
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