PdF:PS_0014 Introduction to Psychology of - Course Information
PS_0014 Introduction to Psychology of Sexuality
Faculty of EducationSpring 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Tereza Škubalová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Tereza Škubalová, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Education
Supplier department: Department of Psychology – Faculty of Education - Timetable
- each even Monday 16:00–17:50 Virtuální místnost
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
- Course objectives
- The course will introduce selected social-psychological aspects of the development of sexuality and its positive cultivation. The topics will be set in a social context and eventually linked to selected standards for sex education as defined by the WHO (2010).
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of this course, students should:
- Have basic knowledge over contemporary approaches to sexuality;
- Understand the process of sexual socialisation and its embededness in the cultural and historical context;
- Apply knowledge about socially constructed meanings around sexuality to think critically about presumably „natural“ nature of human sexuality;
- Understand the psycho-sexual development in various life stages and the potential for further cultivation of sexuality in adulthood;
- Know and define key terms of the psychology of sexuality;
- Confront the reality of their sexual education with the standards for sexual education by WHO and suggest potential changes in their practice. - Syllabus
- 1. Major psychological theories in the study of human sexuality.
- 2. Sexual socialisation I (role of history and culture, agents of socialisation, social learning theory)
- 3. Sexual socialisation II (main discourses of sexuality)
- 4. Psychodynamic development of sensuality and sexuality (role of attachment and emotional regulation)
- 5. Sexuality and identity (agency and desire)
- 6. Sexual education for 21. century
- Literature
- required literature
- WHO Europe (2010). Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe: A framework for policy makers, educational and health authorities and specialists. Cologne: Federal Centre for Health Education, BZgA.
- American Psychological Association, Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls. (2007). Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/pi/women/programs/girls/report-full.pdf
- LEHMILLER, Justin J. The psychology of human sexuality. Second edition. Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell, 2018, xxix, 442. ISBN 9781119164715. info
- recommended literature
- Fine, M., McClelland, S. (2006). Sexuality Education and Desire: Still Missing after All These Years. Harvard Educational Review, 76(3), 297-338. doi:10.17763/haer.76.3.w5042g23122n6703
- Fonagy, P. (2008). A Genuinely Developmental Theory of Sexual Enjoyment and Its Implications for Psychoanalytic Technique. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 56(1), 11-36. doi:10.1177/0003065107313025
- SCHORE, Allan N. Affect regulation and the origin of the self : the neurobiology of emotional development. Classic edition. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016, xliv, 708. ISBN 9781138917071. info
- FAFEJTA, Martin. Sexualita a sexuální identita : sociální povaha přirozenosti. Vydání první. Praha: Portál, 2016, 237 stran. ISBN 9788026210306. info
- TRAINA, Cristina L. H. Erotic attunement : parenthood and the ethics of sensuality between unequals. London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011, xi, 363. ISBN 9780226811383. info
- Teaching methods
- lecture, discussion
- Assessment methods
- essay
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
- Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/ped/spring2024/PS_0014