| Subject | Course | Section | Course Title | Course Description | Instructor | Files | Term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RS | 291 | 001 | Special Topics - SJU in Peru |
Consult Department for current offerings.
Open to students participating in the SJU in Peru service learning program only. |
Fall 2023 | ||
| SMF | 101 | 001 | Introduction to Relationships and Families |
This course provides an overview of couple, marital, and family relationships from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective.
Offered on campus |
Fall 2023 | ||
| SMF | 204 | 001 | Introduction to Human Sexuality |
This course provides a broad interdisciplinary overview of theories and research on human sexuality. Topics may include human anatomy, sexual health, sexual response cycle, sexual orientation, gender, sex work, sexual practices, fetishes and paraphilias, and attraction/intimacy/love.
Offered on campus |
Fall 2023 | ||
| SMF | 205 | 001 | The Dark Side of Sexuality |
As with all profound and meaningful human activities, sexuality has the potential to involve harm, manipulation, and abuse. This course offers a theoretical and empirical examination of the dark side of human sexuality. Topics may include sex work, pornography, sexual violence and abuse, incest, compulsive sexual behaviour, and paraphilias.
Offered on campus |
Fall 2023 | ||
| SMF | 208 | 001 | Introduction to Systemic Therapies and Anti-Oppressive Practices |
This course provides an overview of various theoretical and therapeutic practices in relational and sex therapy, and serves as an introduction to social justice, anti-oppressive, and inclusionary therapeutic practices. In doing so, the intersections of social locations such as class, culture, dis/ability, gender, and race within various social contexts are critically analyzed.
Offered on campus |
Fall 2023 | ||
| SMF | 212 | 001 | Navigating Sexuality and Relationships in Mid/Later Life |
This course reviews the process of navigating relationships and sexuality as persons age. Topics may include physical/biological changes, desire, youth-focused culture, relationship dissolution, dating, and technologies.
Offered on campus |
Fall 2023 | ||
| SMF | 218 | 001 | Sexual Health and Well-Being in Comics |
This course will present a concentrated history of the major trends and patterns within the representation of human sexuality and sexual health in 20th- and 21st-century comics art. Students will be introduced to the unique and powerful role that comics have played in representing sexuality and sexual well-being through exposure to various artists and scholars on the subject. Students will explore key concepts through close readings of relevant texts, and through the application of key theoretical materials, modeling the kind of analytical work that students will then produce themselves in both discussion and written assignments.
Held with HHUM 218
Offered on campus |
Fall 2023 | ||
| SMF | 220 | 001 | Research Methods |
This course introduces students to the philosophy and methods of social science and humanities research, including an examination of issues and approaches to conducting research in the areas of sexuality, couples, and families.
Offered on campus |
Fall 2023 | ||
| SMF | 301 | 001 | Communication and Counselling Skills |
This course is an examination and analysis of the theories and methods of communication as applied within the processes of individual, relational, and family consultation and counselling.
Offered on campus |
Fall 2023 | ||
| SMF | 306 | 001 | Intimate Relationships |
The interpersonal dynamics involved in intimate relationships will be examined. Topics such as attraction, commitment, love, trust, dissolution, and communication will be examined from various theoretical and empirical perspectives.
Offered on campus |
Fall 2023 |