Sociology 402 – Special Topics: The Politics of Sexual Consent
Course Description:
This course offers a sociological exploration of the concept of sexual consent and its relationship to sexual justice. The course examines the historical and contemporary ways that consent has been articulated, disputed, and mobilized. Some of the topics include: the social construction of sexual norms, legal vs. community-based models for consent, debates about pleasure and danger, depictions of consent in popular media, consent education, and the socio-economic, cultural, and political factors which affect consent’s usefulness as a concept to address sexual injustice.
Course Objectives/Learning Outcomes:
Interrogate the geneology of consent discourses in the feminist movement.
• Articulate key arguments distinguishing criminal justice and transformative justice frameworks for consent.
• Use a sociological lens to think critically about sexual norms, rape culture, and the value of the contemporary concept of consent.
• An ability to think in complex ways about models for consent and to interrogate the usefulness of the concept of consent for preventing sexual violence.
• A capacity to critically analyze consent education initiatives.
ASSIGNMENT ARTICLE GIVEN:
Flicker, S., Sayde, A, Hedluns, K., Malivel, G., Wong, K., Owino, M., and S. Booy. “Teaching and Learning About the Relationships Between Land, Violence and Women’s Bodies: The Possibilities of Participatory Visual Methods as Pedagogy.” Agenda 32.4 (2018): 32-44.
https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.macewan.ca/doi/full/10.1080/10130950.2018.1544436
Based on this article, relate this to the course material and do the following:
The main take-aways, a significant quote from each reading, a piece of critique, and two discussion questions. Basically in a way that you are teaching this to a class as a lecture.