Objectives:
1. To provide practical information needed for
everyday living (information about sexual anatomy, contraception, and
sexually transmitted infections, for example) and to deal with problems
in sexual functioning (such as early ejaculation or inability to have
an orgasm).
2. To help students appreciate the fabulous
diversity of human sexuality along many dimensions including age,
sexual orientation and identity, ethnicity within the United States (a
multiethnic perspective), and culture around the world (a multicultural
perspective).
3. To help students feel more at ease with thinking
and talking about sex, both to minimize their own personal discomfort
with a tension-causing topic and to help them become responsible
decision-makers in an important aspect of their personal lives and in
their roles as citizens and voters.
4. To familiarize students with methods used in
research on sexuality, and particularly with problems inherent in some
of these methods, so that they can read research reports critically and
intelligently.
Each student must register for a discussion section. Sections
will
meet weekly, and students are required to attend. Sections will begin on Tuesday, Sept.
8. Two short
papers
will be required as part of the discussion section. Students can
earn
up to 126 points in sections. Final grades will be based on total
points
earned in the course on exams and in sections.
Resources
The Writing Center provides several services, including individual
conferences to work on a course paper you are writing. Writing
Center instructors are all experienced writing teachers. They can
help you develop ideas for a paper and organise them effectively.
They can direct you to resources
that will help you with mechanical problems. Call 263-1992, or
send
email to writing@wisc.edu. The Writing Center also
has many
online tutorials that will improve your
writing. Web Address:
www.wisc.edu/writing/ Click on "The Writers Handbook."
The Student Peer Technology Training Program provides free
technology training
for all students. Courses cover topics such as Introduction to
Computers,
Windows: Beyond the Basic, MAC, Eudora, WebCT, Desktop Publishing,
Internet
and Creating Webpages. Call 265-6624, or send email to sts@doit.wisc.edu.
Web Address: http://www.doit.wisc.edu/training/student
.
Personal Response System
We will be using the eInstruction Personal Response System. Every
student is required to have a registered response pad/"clicker."
We will be experimenting with ways to use it during the semester.
Please bear with the usual glitches. Please also give us
feedback, both positive and negative.
This system has been adopted by UW-Madison as the standard system,
and is being used in numerous courses. Information about the
system is online at http://comets.wisc.edu/clickers/eInstruction/index.htm
Student-oriented information is available via the menu on the
lower-right hand corner of the homepage.
If you purchase a new copy of the textbook. you will receive a
rebate coupon for activating the Response Pad; with the coupon,
activation will cost $6.00. Without the coupon, activation will
cost $15.00. You may
purchase a
new pad for $23.00, or a used pad if one is available, at A Room of
One's Own
bookstore.
COURSE POLICIES
Answers to Frequently Asked
Questions
Do I have to come to
lecture?
Yes, there will be one to three questions on the exam from each
lecture. Each time you miss a lecture, you are risking a lower
score on the next exam.
Do I have to come to section?
Yes, each time you attend section you will earn points. You also
will learn important information about future assignments.
Do you give make-up exams?
Ordinarily we don't give make-up exams. The only exceptions are
for serious illness and/or injuries or family emergencies. If you
ask for a make-up exam you must provide evidence of illness or
emergency.
Can I hand assignments in
late?
Yes. Your score will be reduced for each day it is late.
Ordinarily we do not accept assignments which are more than four days
late.
Lecture Etiquette
1. Please arrive before the bell rings.
It is very annoying when people arrive late, especially when they climb
over three people to get to a seat.
2. Turn off your cell phone or blackberry devices
when you enter the room.
3. If you must arrive late, please be sweaty
and out of breath so we know you did your best to be on time.
4. Please do not talk during lecture, video,
etc. If you talk, it distracts others around you.
5. Please do not eat during lecture. If you
must eat, bring enough for everybody! (There are four hundred
people in the class!).
6. Please do not close your books, move your writing
table, stand up, or start talking before the instructor is done talking.
7. When you leave, be sure you take everything you
brought into the room. Please do not leave newspapers, class
handouts, soda cans or other discarded stuff on the floor. The
university has been forced to cut back on maintenance to save money for
more educational things. We can help by keeping the lecture
halls, classrooms, and hallways clean. If you are finished with
something, put it in the appropriate recycling container.
Laptop Etiquette:
1. Be sure sound is turned off.
2. Use your laptop only for taking notes and other
course activities. Surfing or gaming in class is a distraction to
those sitting near you.
Turn off or disconnect from the
wireless network.
3. Follow all “laptop prohibited” times.
4. Listen to your classmates if they complain that
your laptop use is distracting.
During Exams:
No Walkman,
MP3 players, or ipods;
No cell phones;
No palm
devices; no blackberries
No PDA/SPOT
watches.
No laptops.
These and ALL related devices must be inside purses or backpacks and
may not be accessed while you are in the exam room.
H1N1 Virus
The important practices we are ALL asked to adopt to limit the possible
spread of
the disease on campus are:
-- washing our hands frequently and thoroughly throughout the day;
-- shielding others by coughing or sneezing into our sleeves or
disposable
tissues;
-- and, most importantly, if we develop flu-like symptoms (fever with a
cough and/or sore throat), following the CDC guidelines to
stay home
from work and class and limit contact with others until we
are
completely free of fever for at least 24 hours without the
use of
fever-reducing medications. The CDC estimates this will
take three to
five days for most people.
If a flu emergency is declared on campus, face-to-face class meetings
may be cancelled. We will make every effort to continue
instruction through various distance education techniques, and we will
all have to be prepared for some problems.
Stay informed on theis issue by
visitng http://flu.wisc.edu,
The UW-Madison Influenza Web site.