Human Sexuality Course Analysis

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In the course of this semester, I have increased my knowledge about the field of human sexuality, as well as having gotten the chance to better understand a variety of topics within human sexuality by reading chapters from our textbook and attending a lecture sessions. From the first day of class, this class gave me a broad way of understanding how we should view sex and gender. Before the semester started, I thought this class would only teach me about sex or an interaction between two people, but as the semester progresses, this class has covered every aspect of human sexuality. Reading and learning about the historical perspectives of human sexuality was something I thoroughly enjoyed about this class. However, all of the topics covered in this course were very important to understand.
Professor Fanelli has done great …show more content…

Our guest speakers did really well by sharing information about the field of human sexuality such as, STDs, HIV, and many others. The information they shared not only helped us better understand it, but even provided information about how to be safe with those diseases, and what the consequences may be and how to be cured and even more they shared with us contact information in the event that we ever need some help or suggestions about dealing with them.
One of the observations I would like to outline is how community and society plays a role in people’s life and family. While growing up in an underdeveloped country, there are many things that are bound with superstations. It is a male dominated society, where all men in their households make the decisions for entire family. Eastern lifestyle is completely different than western lifestyle. In other words, there are plenty of little minor things that can occur every day in western countries, whereas in eastern

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