UNSW Handbook Course - A History of Sexualities

A History of Sexualities - HIST2760


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of History and Philosophy
	Course Outline: See below
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: 36 units of credit
	Equivalent: WOMS2003
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Begins with Classical Greece and establishes some important themes concerning gender, sex and culture which will be traced through the intervention of colonisation, Christianity, and the development of social sciences from the 18th century; traces the relationship between sexuality and socio-political control in the 19th and 20th centuries; investigates the shaping of sexualities through art, literature, cinema and media as well as pornography; and looks beyond the infamy of Lesbos, Mary Magdalen, the Marquis de Sade, Oscar Wilde, Margaret Mead, and Monica Lewinsky, amongst others, to uncover a rich history of the west.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will have been:

Introduced to a range of cultural narratives from a variety of historical periods
Have an awareness of developments in cultural history, gender studies and the study of sexuality
Think critically, to analyse and interpret sexualities within a framework of cultural and social history
Have thought comparatively about the history of sexuality in Europe, Australia and America from the ancient world to the present
Have addressed specific problems of historical analysis through individual research and group discussion and thus gained skills and experience in historical documentation
Have studied a range of theoretical approaches to sexuality
Investigated the history of sexuality in a cross-disciplinary framework, and incorporated in your historical readings materials from medicine, art, literature, anthropology, cinema, and televison
Developed writing, listening and oral skills.

Assessment

In completing the assignments you will develop writing, listening and oral skills.

Research essay (3000 words) - 40%
Class presentation - 10%
End of session in-class test - 20%
Evidence of reading and class participation - 30%

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