Sacred and Sexual: Effective and Informed Sexuality Education for Faith Settings

3 credits · Divinity School

This course will equip students with practical knowledge, skills, and techniques to develop more confidently effective, safe(r) educational and conversational spaces for faith communities regarding sexuality topics. It will prepare students to navigate diverse values regarding sexuality topics, including their own, and develop methods for recognizing and managing their own triggers. This class will train students to utilize practices that encourage community participants to explore moral and ethical values, make decisions within values systems, and practice communication. Prioritizing evidence-based sexual health information and nuanced understandings of the interplay of personal identities, behaviors, and cultural constructions; students will explore sexuality education as a liberatory and justice-making practice, particularly in the faith contexts. [3]