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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - RCS6471
Tracking Number - 1641
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2007-06-28
- Department: Rehabilitation & Mental Health Counseling
- College: AS
- Budget Account Number: TPA/10000/125700/000000/0000000
- Contact Person: Denise Montgomery
- Phone: 8139740972
- Email: dmontgom@cas.usf.edu
- Prefix: RCS
- Number: 6471
- Full Title: Human Sexuality Counseling
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
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- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Human Sexuality
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: none
- Corequisites: none
- Course Description: Course is designed to introduce students & mental health professionals to the diverse nature and construct of human sexuality. The curriculum meets the Florida Statute 491 licensure requirement as a contact area in "human sexuality theories". Majors only.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: This is a required course for the masters degree in rehabilitation and mental health counseling and for Florida state licensing. It has been listed for more than five years under a variable topic course number, however, it should be listed under a unique
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? This course is required for the major and for Florida licensure as a Mental Health Counselor (LMHC). Since the fall 2002, 242 students have enrolled in this course.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? This course has been offered as a selected topic course 14 times since the fall 2002.
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Earned doctorate from a regionally accredited institution in counseling or a closely related area. Applicants should be licensed or license eligible in Florida as a mental health counselor. Demonstrated excellence or potential for excellence in research and teaching is required.
- Objectives: Surveys current theories & research on sexuality-related topics using cultural, historical, bio-, psycho-, & socio- approaches. Students exam their attitudes & values with regard to the area of human sexuality to become aware of biases & beliefs, & the implications for clinical practice.
- Learning Outcomes: Exhibit knowledge in the following areas; *Role of culture *Anatomy, physiology, & sexual response *Development of sexuality across life span *Wide range of sexual behaviors *Gendered languages & practices *Healthy & problematic sexual functioning *Reproductive issues *Causes, prevention, & treatment of sexually transmitted infection *Issues of sexual victimization
- Major Topics: Sex and culture, sex and values, sex education, sex research, sex and media, gender, sexual orientation, sexual anatomy, response and expression, intersexuality, transgenderism, childhood sexuality, menstruation, adult sexuality, variations in sexual behaviors, communication, pregnancy & childbirth, birth control, sex problems & therapy, coercive sex, commercial sex, sex & health, transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS, chemical dependency
- Textbooks: Human Sexuality: Diversity in Contemporary America, 6th edition, Strong, DeVault, Sayad, Yarber, McGraw Hill.
The Guide to Getting It On, latest edition, Paul Jounnides, Goofy Press.
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.