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by Konstance McCaffree: ()
What a coincidence you should pick my name off the list of experts. It just so happens that I am on the faculty of one of the few sexuality education preparation programs in the US. For years NYU and Penn were the two universities that had Human Sexuality Education degree programs. (I actually got my PHD at NYU in that program). I have been on the faculty since mid 80's at Penn and just recently we moved our program to Widener University, outside Philadelphia. It is the same program with many improvements in it.
Its focus is to prepare people to educate and do some clinical work in the area of sexuality. Our speciality IS to prepare grad students to be educators. You can get a Masters, a Doctorate and we have combined programs with social work and psych D. as well as with Adult Education.
If you would like to know more about the program contact our program coordinator Dr. William Stayton at william.r.stayton@widener.edu and ask him to send you some information.
I am leaving to work in Nigeria for the next two weeks but when I return you can continue to write back to me and ask questions since I am the sexuality education coordinator for the program.
AS far as what undergrad courses you should have, it is helpful to have as many that broaden your base of sexuality as possible. Sociology and women's studies are both good avenues. It might help to have an education course, but teaching other subjects is not as easily comparable to teaching sexuality since the values and skills are so very different. There could be lots of sexuality education going on in social studies and English literature, so learning how to look for ways to connect the content to sexuality in creative ways is important.
Just learning to educate in a variety of ways is helpful. So is experiencing many sexuality courses such as those on sexual minorities.
You can contact me after May 6 at kmccaffree@aol.com Reviewed by: Scott Gross M. Ed.
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