380.720.01 MASCULINITY, SEXUAL BEHAVIOR & HEALTH: ADOLESCENCE & BEYOND

Focuses on male sexual and reproductive health across the lifespan and explores the meaning of masculinity and the impact of masculine beliefs on males’ sexual and reproductive health and healthcare use. Students critique the literature and explore methods to design interventions working within a masculinity framework to improve males’ sexual and reproductive health outcomes.

At the end of this course a successful student will: 1. Identify key sexual and reproductive health for males across the lifespan from a domestic as well as an international perspective 2. Critically describe masculinity theory & how masculinity influences men’s health, healthcare use, & relationships with women in context of other health behavior theories 3. Discuss male sexuality including sexual identity development including theories on sexual orientation development 4. Describe community-based intervention studies on male sexual/reproductive health 5. Describe clinic-based intervention studies on male sexual/reproductive health 6. Describe emergent sources of data for male reproductive health, including NSAM, NSFG, YRBS, NSSHB 7. Effectively work in teams to critically present data on male sexual/reproductive health 8. Discuss student-generated topics of interest related to male sexual/reproductive health