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Apr 03, 2026
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ES 347 - Black Sexualities
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-4; Diversity
An introduction to a broad range of sexual diversities within Black communities including LGBTQ identities to BDSM and polyamory. The course is specifically centered around an investigation of the theoretical and activist implications of Audre Lorde’s notion of the erotic, Adrienne Maree Brown’s pleasure activism, and recent scholarship that suggests that reclaiming pleasure, decolonizing our bodies from white supremacist discourse, centering self-love and harm reduction can help individual and collective healing from centuries of oppression and serve as a foundation for political organizing. The course highlights the many ways that people of color, sex workers, disabled people and queer, trans and nonbinary people have been reclaimed joy and sexual pleasure and why we must center pleasure as an organizing principle.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-4 - Upper Division Social and Behavioral Sciences, Overlay -Diversity
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division GE Area 4 requirements (Area D1-2 requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Students will be able to explain discipline-specific theoretical frameworks including Black feminisms, Black and queer of color theory, and intersectionality (SLO #2)
- Students will be able to recognize the complexity and heterogeneity within Black sexual communities and the influence of and resistance to white male heterosexual patriarchal norms (SLO#3)
- Students will be able to research and write effectively, in individual or collaborative contexts, on issues, ideas, perspectives, and values that affect Black Sexual communities and diversity within Black Sexual communities(SLO #4)
GE-UD-4. Upper-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Learning Outcomes
- analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
- demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
- demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.
Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
- Describe the histories, experiences or views of one or more cultural groups.
- Analyze the overlap or intersection of social identities of oneself and/or other cultural groups (e.g., culture, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, and/or age).
- Examine the impact of their own identity on their experiences with and/or views of other cultural groups.
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