HIST 215 - History of Sexuality in the United States

(3 units) CO10

History of sexual identities, practices, and politics in the United States, focusing on the 19th century through present.

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Spring

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. explain and critically apply the concept of the social construction of sexuality.
2. explain and critically apply the concept of the intersectional analysis of sexuality.
3. identify examples of the state regulation of sexuality in the 19th and 20th century United States.
4. identify examples of how sexual identities, communities, and politics in the 19th and politics in the 19th and 20th century United States have responded to state regulation.
5. use scholarship, historical evidence, and the concepts of social construction and intersectional analysis to evaluate how the history of sexuality can enrich broader understandings of U.S. history.
6. analyze and synthesize primary and secondary sources both orally and in writing.

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