History of Sexuality
Overview
A sample course outline may include the following topics.
Note: Content may vary according to the instructor’s selection of topics.
- Introduction: Historicizing Sexuality
- A Distorted Mirror of History: Patriarchy and Sexuality in the Premodern World
- Early Modern Bodies: Courtship, Marriage, and Passionate Friendships
- Colonial Desires: The Economics of Class, Race, and Sexuality
- Borderlands: Indigenous Sexualities, Settler Colonialism, and Homosocial Spaces
- Reforming the City: Sexual Danger, Obscenity, and Censorship
- Sexual Anxieties: Eugenics and Reproduction
- Medicalization, Heteronormativity and the Rise of Sexologists
- Forgotten Histories: Liberation Movements and State-Sponsored Violence
- Cold War Desires: Sexuality, Nationalism, and the State
- Rights Revolutions, the AIDS Crisis, and Moral Panics
- Global Protests, Sexuality/Commodification, and Sexual Violence
- Intersectional Identities, Bodily Boundaries, and Trans Interventions
- Looking Forward, Looking Back: Transnational Identities, Postcolonial Sexualities, and Queer Kinships
Classroom instruction will include both lectures and seminar discussions. Lectures will provide instruction on weekly topics with opportunities for student inquiry and discussion. Seminars will encourage active class participation in the analysis of assigned primary and secondary readings. Classroom instruction may also include student presentations on specific readings and/or topics, and other types of student-led activities. Classroom instruction may also include tutorials and workshops on transferrable skills, including research methods, academic citation practice, and presentation skills.
Assessment will be in accordance with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy. Students may conduct research with human participants as part of their coursework in this class. Instructors for the course are responsible for ensuring that student research projects comply with College policies on ethical conduct for research involving humans.
Students will have opportunities to build and refine their research capacity and historical thinking skills through assessments appropriate to the level of the course. There will be at least three separate assessments, which may include a combination of midterm and final exams; research essays; primary document analysis assignments and essays; quizzes; map tests; in-class and online written assignments; seminar presentations; student assignment portfolios; group projects; creative projects; class participation.
The value of each assessment and evaluation, expressed as a percentage of the final grade, will be listed in the course outline distributed to students at the beginning of the term. Specific evaluation criteria will vary according to the instructor’s assessment of appropriate evaluation methods.
An example of one evaluation scheme:
Participation 15%
Seminar Presentation 15%
Primary source analyses 20%
Reading Responses 15%
Short essay assignment 15%
Final Exam 20%
At the conclusion of the course, successful students will be able to demonstrate historical thinking skills, research skills, critical thinking skills and communication skills appropriate to the level of the course by:
1. Locating, examining, assessing, and evaluating a range of primary sources and secondary scholarly literature critically and analytically (reading history).
2. Constructing historical arguments, taking historical perspectives, and interpreting historical problems through different types of writing assignments of varying lengths (writing history).
3. Participating in active and informed historical debate independently and cooperatively through classroom discussion and presentation (discussing history).
4. Independently and cooperatively investigating the ways that history is created, preserved and disseminated through public memory and commemoration, oral history, community engagement, and other forms of popular visual and written expressions about the past (applying history).
Textbooks and Course Readers may be chosen from the following list, to be updated periodically. An instructor’s custom Course Reader may be required. Additional online resources may also be assigned. Additional reading lists and links to specific resources also may be provided online or in the instructor’s course outline.
Clark, Anna. Desire: A History of European Sexuality. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2019.
Clark, Anna, ed. The History of Sexuality in Europe: A Sourcebook and Reader. New York: Routledge, 2011.
D’Emilio John, and Estelle Freedman. Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America. 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Fitzgerald, Maureen, and Scott Rayter. Queerly Canadian: An Introductory Reader in Sexuality Studies. Toronto: Canadian Scholar’s Press, 2012.
Foster, Thomas A., ed. Documenting Intimate Matters: Primary Sources for a History of Sexuality in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Kuefler, Mathew, ed. The History of Sexuality Sourcebook. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.
Mottier, Véronique. Sexuality: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Naugler, Diane, ed. Canadian Perspectives in Sexuality Studies: Identities, Experiences, and the Context of Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Parkinson, R.B. A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World. London: British Museum Press, 2013.
Phillips, Kim M., and Barry Reay. Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011.
Romesburg, Don, ed. The Routledge History of Queer America. New York: Routledge, 2018.
Stearns, Peter N. Sexuality in World History. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Requisites
Prerequisites
No prerequisite courses.
Corequisites
No corequisite courses.
Equivalencies
No equivalent courses.
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers
These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca
| Institution | Transfer details for HIST 1160 |
|---|---|
| Alexander College (ALEX) | ALEX HIST 1XX (3) |
| Athabasca University (AU) | AU WGST 322 (3) |
| Camosun College (CAMO) | CAMO HIST 115 (3) |
| Capilano University (CAPU) | CAPU HIST 2XX (3) |
| Coast Mountain College (CMTN) | CMTN HIST 1XX (3) |
| College of New Caledonia (CNC) | CNC HIST 1XX (1) |
| College of the Rockies (COTR) | COTR HIST 1XX (3) |
| Columbia College (COLU) | COLU HIST 1st (3) |
| Coquitlam College (COQU) | COQU HIST 1XX (3) |
| Corpus Christi College (CCC) | CCC HIST 1XX (3) |
| Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) | KPU HIST 1XXX (3) |
| Langara College (LANG) | LANG HIST 1XXX (3) or LANG WMST 2274 (3) |
| LaSalle College Vancouver (LCV) | LCV HST 1XX (3) |
| North Island College (NIC) | NIC HIST 1XX (3) |
| Northern Lights College (NLC) | NLC HIST 2XX (3) |
| Okanagan College (OC) | OC HIST 1XX (3) |
| Simon Fraser University (SFU) | SFU HIST 115 (3) |
| Thompson Rivers University (TRU) | TRU HIST 1XXX (3) |
| Trinity Western University (TWU) | TWU HIST 1XX (3) |
| University Canada West (UCW) | UCW HIST 1XX (3) |
| University of British Columbia - Okanagan (UBCO) | UBCO HIST_O 1st (3) |
| University of British Columbia - Vancouver (UBCV) | UBCV HIST_V 1st (3) |
| University of Northern BC (UNBC) | UNBC HIST 2XX (3) |
| University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) | UFV HIST 2XX (3) |
| University of Victoria (UVIC) | UVIC HSTR 1XX (1.5) |
| Vancouver Island University (VIU) | VIU HIST 228 (3) |
| Yorkville University (YVU) | YVU GES 2XXX (3) |