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Kari A Lerum
BIS 219
Bothell Campus
Examines the history and politics of sex education, reproduction, and sexual health in the United States, with cross national/regional comparisons. Explores how various cultural and ideological positions bring about different concepts of sexuality, the body, rights, personhood, and social and global responsibility.
Class description
Spring 2008:
This course focuses on the history and politics of sex education, reproduction, and sexual health in the United States, with some cross national/regional comparisons, in particular to The Netherlands, Scandinavia, South Africa, Uganda, Brazil, and Thailand. The course will help students gain a deeper sense of how various cultural and ideological positions bring about different logics of sexuality, the body, rights, personhood, and social and global responsibility.
Student learning goals
To understand how context specific variations in cultural and ideological stances lead to different logics of sexuality, the body, personhood, and social & global responsibility.
To gain critical health literacy skills around sexual health and sexual rights.
To understand the ways that “sexual” issues are not simply moral but are also informed by relations of social inequality such as race, gender, and class dynamics.
To compare health outcomes in the US and other nations and to consider the effect that differential sex educations and ideological positions may have on health.
To critically assess the impact of US policies on the sexual health policies on nations dependent on US aid.
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