We are happy to announce that the Advancing Sexualities Studies Short Course is now openly available at SexualityStudies.net. The course modules cover an exciting range of topics related to critical sexuality studies, such as biopower, kinship, media, gender, sexual rights, masculinity, Christianity, Islam and many others.

You can now access the Advancing Sexualities Studies Short Course
modules and teaching materials through the ‘Short Course’ menu at the
top of this page. All the course modules are licensed for open access
under Creative Commons so please feel free to download them and to use
them as you see fit, whether it be by running the course as a whole or
by incorporating modules into your own teaching. 

Readers may already be aware that SexualityStudies.net was created as part of a project to develop an international short course in critical sexuality theory and research methodologies. The SexualityStudies.net website was initially conceived as a way of publishing and disseminating the results of a scoping and feasibility study that informed the design and creation of the short course. The website was also envisaged as a place where we would eventually house the short course teaching materials.

The Advancing Sexualities Studies Short Course project is funded by the Ford Foundation and has been developed by the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) in conjunction with the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS). The course has now been transferred to IASSCS, which will be responsible for the roll-out of the final course in 2010 and 2011.

We have added a Short Course Discussion Group to SexualityStudies.net so that short course users can be in contact with one another about questions, issues or difficulties that arise from engaging with the short course modules and materials. You need to register as a user of SexualityStudies.net to join the Short Course Discussion Group. As a registered user, you will also receive information and updates in relation to new additions to SexualityStudies.net and any additions or modifications to the Advancing Sexualities Studies Short Course modules.

Please contact us if you’re having any problems registering as a user, joining the Short Course Discussion Group or downloading short course module content.