Academics and Curriculum Development at the Center for Gender, Sexuality and Health
Students wishing to study sexuality in many university settings often find that only one or two courses covering only a small area of the topic (usually with a heavy emphasis on biomedical issues) are available during their years of study. On the other hand, faculty members who teach sexuality studies often do so in isolation and without either the time or expertise to cover all the major areas of the topic adequately.
Although the Department of Sociomedical Sciences is already highly unusual - and perhaps even unique among major academic programs in the number and breadth of its existing course offerings in this area - one of the important activities of this project is to further expand the existing curriculum through the development of a series of new courses aimed to fill existing gaps and to provide students with access to a fully-rounded education on the historical development of sexuality studies, current topics and methods in the field, and cutting-edge debates on theories and issues focusing on sexuality, culture and society. Faculty from CGSH have been involved in the development of these new courses on sexuality and health, such as Promoting Sexual Health and the History of Sexual Health Promotion.
To facilitate communication among faculty and students working in the field of gender, sexuality and health, the CGSH began holding monthly Sexuality Research Meetings. The purpose of these meetings is for students and faculty interested in issues in the field of sexuality to share information about their projects in order to strengthen the dialogue in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences and with other departments within the School of Public Health.
In response to student interest, the CGSH sponsored a Gender, Sexuality and Health Journal Club as a forum for students and faculty to discuss cutting-edge research on current issues in the field of gender, sexuality and health.
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