Course Description


P8600   Pedagogy of Sexuality Education, 3 points

Prerequisites: P8815 Current Issues in Sexual Health

Pedagogy of Sexuality Education will provide students with the background and skills they need to design, implement and evaluate evidence-based sexuality education interventions. The course will emphasize teaching methodology for working in person with groups and students will learn techniques for improving participants' knowledge, attitudes, understanding of actual norms, self-efficacy and skills related to sexual health. Further, all students will learn strategies for facilitating group learning, responding to the needs of students of various ages and developmental stages, and ways to engage parents. The course will include designing and delivering lesson plans and receiving substantive feedback from the other course participants and the instructor. Special issues including techniques for working effectively within tight time constraints, preventing controversy and utilizing new technology for sexuality education will also be addressed. The context in which young people are learning about sexuality and dominant cultural scripts will be analyzed to determine pedagogical objectives.