Subject Course Section Course Title Course Description Instructor Files Term
SMF 204 041 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.

 BJ Rye PDF icon SMF 204_BJ.Rye_Fall 2020.pdf Fall 2020
SMF 208 041 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.

 PDF icon SMF 208_R.Thawer_Fall 2020.pdf Fall 2020
SMF 215 041 Sexuality and Pop Culture

This course examines how sexuality is depicted in, shaped by, and contested in popular culture. It introduces different theories in the study of popular culture and sexuality through a range of historical and contemporary texts and practices.

 PDF icon SMF 215_J.Pazzano_Fall 2020.pdf Fall 2020
SMF 220 041 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.

 Denise Whitehead PDF icon SMF 220_D.Whiteside_Fall 2020.pdf Fall 2020
SMF 310 041 Sexual and Relational Ethics

A study of social relationships and systems that support sexual identities and relationship structures which generate ethical issues related to attitudes, values, and behaviours at both the individual and group level. This course may address sexual and relationship ethics on local, national, and transnational scales focusing on how issues of ethics and morality have been socially constructed.

 PDF icon SMF 310_K.Nixon_Fall 2020.pdf Fall 2020
SMF 496 041 Seminar in Family Studies - Intersecting Identities in Relationships

This seminar allows students to integrate their knowledge in the domains of couples, marriages, and family studies. Topics reflect current issues from a theoretical and research perspective.

 Toni Serafini PDF icon SMF 496_T.Serafini_Fall 2020.pdf Fall 2020
SOC 355J 041 Power and Parenting

An examination of contemporary parent-child relations in terms of a reconceptualization of power. Special attention will be given to contemporary interpretive (e.g. hermeneutic) approaches to a reformulation of the relation between power and action.

 Kieran Bonner PDF icon SOC 355J_K.Bonner_Fall 2020.pdf Fall 2020
SOC 369J 041 The Sociology of Community

This course examines how our contemporary concern with community is connected with the rise of modern society and the development of the urban-rural debate. Our anxieties about community will be shown to be connected to our anxieties about family. Special attention will be given to the interpretive approach to these issues.

 Kieran Bonner PDF icon SOC 369J_K.Bonner_Fall 2020.pdf Fall 2020
SOC 229 081 Selected Topics in Criminology

Sociological analysis of research and theory on selected criminal activities. Motivation, modus operandi, and the social characteristics of offenders will be examined in relation to such specific crimes as drug and sexual offenses, theft, robbery, murder, organized crime, and/or other criminal activities.

 

Cross-listed with LS 229

 Carlie Leroux-Demir PDF icon SOC 229-LS 229-081_C.Leroux_Fall 2020.pdf Fall 2020
SMF 307 001 Conflict, Crisis, and Dissolution in Close Relationships

Families and close relationships are among the most important and valued human experiences, but they can also be the source of much conflict and pain. This course will examine the dark side of close relationships, with a focus on topics such as conflict and conflict resolution, family violence, poverty, separation and divorce, illness, and death and bereavement.

 

 PDF icon SMF 307_D.Shakespeare_Winter 2020.pdf Winter 2020