Course Syllabus for PSYC 2306 Section 006 Human Sexuality 2011 Spring Standard Semester

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1 Page 1 of 8 ADMINISTRATIVE MENU HOME LOG IN Course Syllabus for PSYC 2306 Section 006 Human Sexuality 2011 Spring Standard Semester Note to Students: Syllabi are the most recent available at the time they were posted to the VCT website. They will be updated, as appropriate, on the syllabi disseminated on the class start dates. For current textbook information, refer to the Course Details accessed by clicking the course title in the online Course Schedule. Syllabus for Psychology 2306: Human Sexuality, Spring, 2009, Section 090 Logon at: Your Password is the 1st two characters of your last name (in UPPERCASE) followed by the last 6 digits of your SS# For example, if Sigmund Freud\'s SS# was then his Password would be FR Click Human Sexuality: PSYC Instructor: Dr. Don Lucas, Ph.D. Phone: Office (LOH 306L) ; Night dlucas@mail.accd.edu Office hours: M: 900a-noon; 2-5p; W: 900a-noon; Th: 1000a-1100a Regarding you getting in contact with me--i am online at least once every-other day. You can reach me by ing me--using the -system within the class; calling me on the phone; or dropping by my office. If you are ing me, then give me 48 hours to get back in contact with you. If it takes me more than 48 hours to get back in contact with you, then call the fire department because I\'ve likely been hit by a garbage truck. Texts: King, Bruce M. Human Sexuality Today, 5th edition. Prentice Hall. You may purchase the books at the NVC bookstore: storeid=12678&langid=-1&catalogid=10001 Or for better prices, search online at / or Other required materials: You will need access to a computer that has MS Word and MS Excel. Your paper will be written in MS Word; your gradebook will be in MS Excel.

2 Page 2 of 8 Objectives/Outcomes: Our college\'s commitment to you goes beyond individual course content. To this end, you will have the opportunity to develop and expand your attitudes, skills, and knowledge (ASK). At course completion, you will have been exposed to and be able to discuss an overview of the science of psychology. Additionally, you will experience a growth in your desire for lifelong learning, and an increase in your ability to communicate & work with others effectively. Lastly, you will gain a better understanding about what truth is and what truth is not. Dates: Discussion Board (DB) Topic; Chapter(s) Discussion Board 1: Getting comfortable, January 12 - January 18 Questioning: Who are you? Who are we? Why are we here? Everything OK? Everything working? Discussion Board 2: Introducing and defining human sexuality, January 19 - January 25 What is human sexuality? Ready for 16 weeks of intercourse? Intercourse, communication, intimacy, affects, behaviors, cognitions, humor, biological, sociological, psychological, literary, guilt, private, secrets, negative, intimacy, language Reading: King: Chapters 1 and 8 Discussion Board 3: Why do we behave sexually? January 26 - February 1 Why do we behave sexually? sociological, biological, and psychological perspectives: propagation, pleasure, stress release, emotional component, selfconcept, gender identity, moral yardstick (premarital sex, adultery, homosexuality, bisexuality, rape victims, pedophilia, abortion, AIDS), spiritual identity, cohesive force, divisive force, communication, social status, selfexpression, art, fashion, aggression, violence Reading: King: Chapter 13 Discussion Board 4: How should we behave sexually? February 2 - February 8 How should we behave sexually? What is normal? Religions (Judaism, Christianity, Catholicism, Calvinism, Lutheranism, Puritanism), governments (Greeks, Romans, Americans, Europeans), medicine, science, culture, WWII, marriage (female role vs. male role), masturbation, homosexuality, subordination of females, ethics, morals, sins, guilt. Reading: King: Chapters 1, 9, and 13 Discussion Board 5: How do we develop sexually? February 9 - February 15

3 Page 3 of 8 How do we develop emotionally from a sexual perspective? How do we develop physically from a sexual perspective? How do we develop cognitively from a sexual perspective? Who is sexual? Kids and old people aren\'t-right!? Freud\'s psychosexual stages of development: oral, anal, genital, latency, phallic; puberty; precocious puberty; erogenous zones; adolescence; petting; menarche; Paiget\'s cognitive stages of development: sensori-motor, preoperational, concrete-operational, formal-operational; critical periods; playing doctor; running around naked. Reading: King: Chapter 12 Discussion Board 6: What is: liking? February 16 - February 22 What is liking? Is liking different from loving? How do I make someone like me? What does liking have do with it? Operational definitions, reciprocity, familiarity, proximity, similarities, subjective beauty, objective beauty, anorexia, behaviorism, psychoanalytic, Oedipus complex, excitation transfer hypothesis, Barbie! Reading: King: Chapter 14 Discussion Board 7: What is: loving? February 23 - March 8 (Note: two weeks) Is liking different from loving (continued)? What is love? How do I make someone love me? I\'m in love, now what? What predicts long-term relationships? Operational definitions, 4 F\'s, Fromm, Freud, Sternberg, rape, God, self esteem, self love, erotic love, companionate love, passionate love, humanity, intimacy, passion, commitment, in love, I love, loving, infatuation, oxytocin, Golden Mean, habituation. Reading: King: Chapter 14 Spring Break! March 9 - March 15 Discussion Board 8: Sexuality in the media. March 16 - March 22 Talking: Sexuality in the Media Doing: No readings this week, instead, you get to watch some movies! Films- Tough Guise, Killing Her Softly, or Merchants of Cool. Please VIEW one of these films in the library and be prepared to discuss it on this week\'s bulletin board. Discussion Board 9: Gender. March 23 - March 29 What is gender? What is male? What is female? Nature/nurture, prenatal, postnatal, genetics, biology, physiology, neuroendocrinology, development, psychology, sociology, masculinity, femininity, androgynous, chromosomes, twins, gonads, testes, ovaries, uterus, vagina, seminal vesicles, prostate gland, estrogen, androgen, testosterone, labia, clitoris, penis, scrotum, androgen

4 Page 4 of 8 insensitivity syndrome, penis at 13 syndrome, pseudo-hermaphrodite, Turner\'s Syndrome, transsexual, intersex. Reading: King: Chapter 10 Discussion Board 10: Sexual orientation. March 30 - April 12 (Note: two weeks) Talking/Questioning: What is orientation? Does this have anything to do with gender? Why am I attracted to males? Why am I attracted to females? Why am I attracted to males and females? Nature/nurture, prenatal, post-natal, genetics, biology, physiology, neuroendocrinology, development, psychology, sociology, anthropology, homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual, continuum, discrete, normal, stereotypes, stereotype threat, homophobia, labeling, history, 10%? Reading: King: Chapters 10 and 11 Discussion Board 11: Birth control, pregnancy, and childbirth. April 13 - April 19 How many people \"should\" be in the world? Condoms, diaphragms, sponges, the pill, hormonal implants, abortion, trimesters: 1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd, diseases, miscarriages, labor, breast-feeding, infertility, superfertility. Reading: King: Chapters 6 and 7 Discussion Board 12: Sexual disorders. April 20 - April 26 What is a sexual deviation and how do I get rid of it!? What is a paraphilia and how is it treated? How does incest affect family and identity? What is a fantasy? How are fantasies related to sex? Do people generally dissociate fantasy from reality? What are you thinking? Sexual paraphilias vs. sexual deviations, hypoactive sexual desire, hyper-sexuality, painful intercourse, erectile disorder, vaginismus, female orgasmic disorder; sexual paraphilias vs. sexual deviations, fetishes, froetterism, pedophilia, bestiality, zoophilia, exhibitionism, voyeurism, sadomasochism, incest. Reading: King: Chapters 15 and 16 Discussion Board 13: Orgasm. April 27 - May 3 From smile to orgasm-how long does it take? So what\'s an orgasm really all about? Are there any differences between male and female orgasms? How can homophobia affect culture? How can it affect individuals-in particular, our main character? Sexual response cycle; Master\'s and Johnson: 10,000 orgasms and counting: excitement, plateau, orgasm, resolution; environment; control; senses; muscles; physiology; brain; male-female differences; ejaculation vs. orgasm; multiple orgasms; Grafenberg Spot-the G spot; vaginal vs. clitoral; tumescence; detumescence; effective stimulation. Reading: King: Chapter 4

5 Page 5 of 8 GRADING (aka. the fine print) Your grade-and hopefully, your learning, is based upon you doing three things in this class: The first thing is your participation in our discussion boards (DBs). We will have one new DB per week. In these discussion boards you will be expected to generate questions, answers and/or interest-items. The questions and answers may be generated directly from your chapter readings and/or other students\' questions and answers on the DB. DB questions and answers will be graded on their thoughtfulness and relevance to the current topic. Interestitems may be generated from any item you find interesting in your book chapter and/or other students\' interest-items on the DB. This interest-item may be in the form of a critique, comment, complement, personal story, anecdote, etc. As with DB questions and answers, interest-items will be graded on their thoughtfulness and relevance to the current topic. Each question, answer, and interest-item submitted by you will receive between 0 and 5 points. You may receive a maximum of 15 points of DB participation per topic. In order to receive the maximum 15 points, you must have submitted a minimum of three questions, answers, and/or interest-items during the actual topic week. A DB topic will run Monday through Sunday. You may post on a DB topic after the week is past and receive half-credit for your DB posts. Thus, a post that would have been worth 4 points during the actual \"due\" week is worth 2 points after the due week is past. What\'s the key to the thoughtfulness and relevance of your posts? An ideal post (5 points) will address three perspectives: 1) Your own, 2) The book\'s (or some other \"expert\"), and 3) Somebody else\'s opinion from the class. Each perspective that you use within a post is worth anywhere from 0 to 2 points. You may make as many posts as you need to or want for each DB topic. How about some examples? If a question on the DB was: What is psychology? You could answer: I think psychology is the science of human behavior. How many perspectives are within this post? 1: your own. Did you expand on this perspective? No. Thus, this post would be worth 1 point. If you replied: I think psychology is the science of human behavior because this is consistent with the perspective shared by Myers in the first chapter of our text book; Myers argues that psychology is a science because it uses the scientific method and only reports data that can be replicated. How many perspectives did you share in this post? 2: your own and an expert\'s: Myers (the author of our book). How many points would you have gotten on this post? Since each perspective is worth between 0 and 2 points, you would have likely gained 3 points: You expanded upon Myers\' perspective but did not expand upon your own perspective. If you replied: I think psychology is the science of human behavior. I believe psychology is a science because all the phenomena within psychology can be replicated, that is: repeated. Now Joseph, who posted that psychology is a \"soft\" science--a science that is not concerned about replicable results, I believe is wrong. The American Psychological Website (APA.org) makes perfectly clear that psychology is a \"hard\" science--a science

6 Page 6 of 8 that is concerned only about replicable results--that studies organisms\' affects, behaviors, cognitions, and perceptions. How many perspectives did you share this time? 3: your own, an expert\'s (this time the APA website) and somebody else within the class (Joseph). If each perspective is worth 0 to 2 points and every post that you make is worth up to 5 points, this is obviously a 5 point post as you shared three perspectives and expanded upon at least two of them. The second thing you will be graded on is writing papers called Introspections. You will be expected to write 3 introspections during the semester. These introspections will not be research papers, but instead will be introspective papers which require you to reflect upon yourself. Format and content of the introspections will be announced on the \"Grades and Papers\" DB, as well as on the \"Papers\" icon on the homepage. Each introspection will be worth 50 points. Introspection #1 is due March 15th; Introspection #2 is due April 5th; and Introspection #3 is due April 26th. The third thing you will be graded on is reading all the DB posts. I call this last part of your grade, I See You. You are not required to physically show up to class; however, you are required to keep current with all DB postings. I have my ways to keep track of how many posts you\'re reading on the DBs (said in a Dr. Evil voice). Fifty points of your grade will be earned for keeping-up with reading all the DB postings. If you read all of the DB postings then you will earn all 50 points. If you read 80% of the DB postings then you will earn 80% (40 points) of the 50 points. If you read only 60% of the DB postings then earn only 60% (30 points) of the 50 points, etc Overall Grade As you can see--everything you do in this class is worth some amount of points. The entire class is worth 395 points. Broken down, these 395 points come from 195 points (15 points X 13 topics) of DB Participation; 150 points (50 points X 3 introspections) of Introspections; and 50 points of the \"I See You\" participation. Extra Credit You may earn up to 15 points of extra credit through volunteerism. Details can be found on the Extra Credit icon on the Home Page of this class Extra! Extra! Credit Ready for some social psychological experimentation? Everybody at the beginning of this class has an extra, extra 15 points--but! (There\'s always a BUT!) in order to \"keep\" these points, everybody--yes, everybody has to still be in this class with a passing grade of a C. Everybody \"loses\" 5 of these points every time we lose 10% of our students. So, if 100% of our students are still in the class with passing grades of a C or better, then everybody gets the 15 bonus points; if 90% of our fellow students are still in the class, then everybody gets 10 bonus points; if 80% of our students are still in the class, then everybody gets 5 bonus points. If we have less than 80% of our classmates who are getting a grade of C or better at the end of the semester, then no bonus points will be awarded. So what -ever YOU can do to keep your fellow classmates motivated will be extrinsically awarded. FINAL Grades A = points (90%)

7 Page 7 of 8 B = points (80%) C = points (70%) D = points (60%) F < 237 points Attendance You are not required to physically show up to class; however, you are required to keep current with ALL Discussion Board discussions and postings. I have my ways to keep track of how much you\'re reading on the DBs (said in a Dr. Evil voice). (See \"I See You\" section above.) If you haven\'t read at least 80% of the DB posts at any one time, then you will likely be getting an from me (again said in a Dr. Evil voice). Dropping this Course If you decide you cannot continue the course, then please contact me--and let\'s at least talk about it. After we talk, if you decide to drop, then please take it upon yourself to fill out the drop slip. The last day to drop is April 13 th. Please do not assume you will be dropped by me-it is your responsibility to drop the course. Integrity Northwest Vista College seeks to produce graduates who not only have an academic mastery of their subject but also treasure lifelong learning, diversity, and personal and social responsibility. We believe true learning and personal growth are possible only in an environment where everyone shares common values. One of our values is integrity, which we define as honesty, trust, respect, and fairness. Our values facilitate the intellectual inquiry, the open exchange of ideas and the collaboration necessary for individual learning and social progress. We expect faculty, staff, and students to exemplify all our values. We embrace our values, not out of fear of consequences, but out of a sense of commitment to families, peers, neighbors, our community and ourselves. (Wow! You are still reading this syllabus? Impressive. Private mail me the word \"purple\" and you\'ll get one bonus point for simply reading the syllabus! Shhh, by the way, don\'t share this with others, if they don\'t read the syllabus, then too bad so sad, it will be our own little secret. DD.) Cheating on assignments, plagiarizing the work of others without proper citation, and collusion through unauthorized collaboration are not part of integrity. Penalties for academic dishonesty are serious and range from failing to expulsion. Disability Statement As per Section 504 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the American Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, if you need an accommodation, contact Sharon Dresser at or by at nvc-access@mail.accd.edu Psychology Club Are you interested in psychology, or maybe even a career in psychology? Then you need to join the Psychology Club at NVC! Come meet and learn with other students (and faculty!) who share your interests in this exciting field! Your membership gives you the opportunity to engage in research, attend conferences, meet professionals from various fields, raise funds for the Club, participate in NVC campus activities, and get practical knowledge and experience through interaction

8 Page 8 of 8 with community organizations. You do NOT need to be a psychology major to join, and you may join at anytime during the semester. The only requirements for membership are current enrollment at NVC and a minimum 2.0 cumulative GPA. If you\'re interested in joining, please contact Dr. Carla Kaylor, faculty sponsor, at ckaylor1@mail.accd.edu. Syllabus subject to change with unforeseen circumstances. For more information about VCT or help with the VCT website, please contact the Website Manager VCT Group M7 design