EDCE 7531 - Counseling and Human Sexuality

• Clarify standards which govern personal sexual behavior, both your own and that of others, and examine your feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and values about sexualities(CACREP Section II, Soc & Cultural Diversity 2.e)
• Confront any personal biases you may have regarding sexual minorities and develop a greater understanding, appreciation, awareness, and strong professional affirmation for sexual diversity(CACREP Section II, Soc & Cultural Diversity 2.f)
• Demonstrate your grasp of theoretical and empirical knowledge about the development of human sexualities over the lifespan, and the bio-physiological bases of sexualities(CACREP Section II, Soc & Cultural Diversity 2.c)
• Develop a greater degree of personal comfort with your own sexuality, sexual behaviors, the topic of human sexualities, and the discussion of human sexualities with other people (CACREP Section II, Soc & Cultural Diversity 2.e)
• Identify key historical, biological, psychological, socio-cultural issues in human sexualities, and how they interact and potentiate each other(CACREP Section II, Soc & Cultural Diversity 2.a)
• Identify the role of human sexualities in personal self-concept, social relations, and interpersonal behavior(CACREP Section II, Soc & Cultural Diversity 2.a)
• Integrate the material you are learning with your personal understanding of and beliefs about human intimacy, sexualities, and social relationships: this clearly includes a spiritual dimension(CACREP Section II, Soc & Cultural Diversity 2.e)
• Participate in the experiential learning activities in appropriate ways regarding issues of sexuality(CACREP Section II, Soc & Cultural Diversity 2.b)
• Understand the impact of sexisms, gender scripts, and gender issues on individuals and institutions in our culture, using the approaches of post-modern feminism to analyze and deconstruct these scripts(CACREP Section II, Soc & Cultural Diversity 2.d)