May 25, 2026  
2025-2026 Academic Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Academic Catalog

SOC 260 - Human Sexuality in the United States

4 credits (Spring)
How do individuals develop attractions, make sexual choices, and define and enact their own sexuality? How do institutions and organizations influence, shape, and constrain sexual attitudes and behaviors? This course will examine the social construction of human sexuality in the United States with particular attention to gender, sexual orientation, commercial sex, and sexual education.

Prerequisite: SOC 111  with grade S, C, or better.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Erickson