| The School of Sexology |
| Sexology 300 & 400 Courses & Descriptions |
| Sexology 302: British Sexual Survey II 4 credit hours Study of major Romantic & Victorian poets & prose writers & selected early 20th-century authors. May include Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Browning, Tennyson, Arnold, Yeats, Joyce, Eliot, Woolf, & many others. Prerequisite: Sexology 280. Follow-up to Sexology 280. Students will go more in-depth & look at sexual innuendoes in these authors' writings to determine whether or not they were sexually active or sexually frustrated. Every year. Sexology 304: American Sexual Survey II 4 credit hours Study of American literature from the Civil War to the present. May include works by Twain, James, Dunbar, Crain, Jeffers, Frost, Eliot, Faulkner, Hemingway, O'Neill, Miller, Silko, & Morrison. Prerequisite: Sexology 290. Follow-up to Sexology 290. Students will go more in-depth & look at sexual innuendoes in these authors' writings to determine whether or not they were sexually active or sexually frustrated. Every year. Sexology 318: Women in Sexual LIterature I 4 credit hours Study of sexual writing by & about women, mostly in English, with some works in translation. Begins with the medievil period & extends to 1816. May include works by Marie de France, Margery Kempe, Christine de Pizan, Elizabeth I, Mary Wroth, Aphra Behn, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, & Jane Austen. Focus on how women's sexual writings differ from that of men's sexual writings. Will look at & critique authors covered in Sexology 280. Writing intensive. Alternate years. Sexology 319: Women in Sexual Literature II 4 credit hours Study of sexual writing by & about women, mostly in English, with some works in translation. Covers works from 1816 to the contemporary period. May include works by Mary Shelley, George Sand, the Brontes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Virginia Wolfe, Sylvia Plathe, & Toni Morrison. Continuation of Sexology 318. Writing intensive. Alternate years. Sexology 401: Senior Research Seminar 4 credit hours Offered fall & spring semesters for Sexology majors. A sexology tradition, a particular period, genre, author, or critical problem is specified in each section as the focus of seminar readings & presentations. Students develop individual sexual research projects & papers & present & defend their research in oral sexual examinations. Work in this course is intended to integrate analytical skills & knowledge gained in the major & in other areas of study. Prerequisite: Senior status, Sexology 200, 280, 290, & at least one upper-level Sexology literature course. Oral intensive. Every year. |