Attraction, Love & Sexual Attitudes (Certificate)

Explore online dating, matchmaking, and safety within the context of attraction, love, and sexual attitudes, helping students navigate dating decisions with awareness and responsibility.

Explores the nature of romantic love across cultures, differentiating liking from loving, and presents major theories—attachment theory, terror management theory, self-expansion model—and Sternberg’s triangular theory and eight patterns of loving.

Explore stages of romantic relationships—self-disclosure, stimulus, value, and role information—and how rose-colored lenses, turbulence, and realism affect long-term satisfaction.

Examine how culture and nurture shape human behavior from the prenatal environment to social norms and language. Compare how norms and values influence what counts as abnormal behavior across cultures.

Learn about the menstrual cycle and menstrual period, and evaluate sex during your period, including safety, benefits, risks, and practical tips like lighter days, towels, water, condoms, and communication.

Explore how individuals solidify sexual identity and orientation, communicate needs with partners, and balance responsibility and intimacy among never married singles, celibacy, and cohabitation before marriage.

Explore voyeuristic disorder, where arousal stems from observing others naked or in sex, often beginning before age 15 and involving privacy invasion, with discovery risk intensifying excitement.

Explore frotteuristic disorder, a paraphilia in which arousal arises from touching or rubbing against a non-consenting person in crowded places, typically by men, with fantasies during the act.