This course focuses on human sexual development and identity with an emphasis on adolescent and preadolescent sexuality. The course is organized around five units: 1) sexuality as a discourse of desire; 2) sexuality as a discourse of respect for self for others; 3) sexuality as a discourse of diverse ways of being; 4) sexuality as a discourse of love; and 5)sexuality as a discourse on sexual representations in popular culture. Attention will be given to social constructions of gender, gendered relations, and masculinity and femininity, and the ways these are manifest in curriculum and school settings.