Sexual Health Promotion and Human Rights (5cr)

Objective

Purpose
After completing the course, you will understand the importance of sexuality and human rights, sexual diversity and sexual health from the perspective of the overall well-being of the individual and the community, as well as society.

- You understand the extent of sexual well-being and human rights and the importance of promoting them from the perspective of individuals, communities and society
- You know human and sexual rights as well as ethics and you are able to promote them in working life
- You know the basic goals and tools for the promotion of human rights and sexual health and you are able to implement them in working life
- You understand sexual diversity

Competences:
Ethics:
• The graduating student assesses and promotes the realisation of ethical principles and values of their field of profession, taking equality and non-discrimination into account.
• Is able to promote ethically sustainable activities and the realisation of ethical re-flection in their different operating environments.
• Promotes the realisation of the ethical principles and values of their field.
• Makes decisions taking individual, communal and societal perspectives into account.
• Promotes the realisation of diversity and accessibility.
• Implements the principles of responsible conduct of research and promotes their application in their work community.
• Is able to manage societally influential activities based on ethical values.

Learning to learn:
• The graduating student promotes their own and their community's continuous learning and competence development, drawing on knowledge from different fields and the opportunities of digitalisation.
• Is able to assess and develop their expertise diversely and in a goal-oriented manner at different stages of their career and life.
• Is able to acquire, critically assess and produce information while taking into account the perspectives of different fields.
• Is able to develop and manage goal-oriented, continuous learning in their communi-ty.

Content

Come and strengthen your skills in the field of sexual health promotion and human rights. This course will help you understand and evaluate the promotion of sexual health and human rights at the individual, community and societal levels. In this Study Course, you will familiarize yourself with the following themes:

- Sexual health promotion and human rights at the individual, community and societal levels, the PLISSIT model
- Human and sexual rights and ethics
- The dimensions of sexuality and human rights in society
-Sexual health and sexual diversity
- Sexual violations and human rights violations, such as genital mutilation, prostitution and human trafficking
- Sexual health promotion skills


Item assessment:
Media assignment (25 %): The students choose a case or an article about sexuality from public media and analyse it (what kind of myths, norms, values, laws and social and cultural institutions it represents). The analyses are submitted to the discussion forum and discussed.
Reading assignment (25 %): The students read an article from the list presented in Opti-ma and write a short report about it. An opponent comments the report.
Essay or presentation (50 %): The students write an essay or create a presentation about one of the general themes of the course. The essay or the presentation should be connected to actual work in sexual health promotion if possible.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The general criteria of the competences that the Master's Degrees awarded by Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences provide can be found on JAMK's web pages (Competence Assessment | Jamk). The learning outcomes of individual courses are assessed in relation to the objectives of the course concerned. Assessment is based on knowledge, skills and competence in accordance with the National and European Qualifications Framework (NQF/EQF), level 7.

This course is graded as Pass/Fail, marked as S (Pass) or 0 (Fail).



You show an understanding of the importance of promoting sexual health and rights and human rights from the perspective of individuals, communities and society, and you can give examples of their promotion in working life

You show that you understand the ethical principles of sexual health promotion and human rights

You can justify sexual phenomena on an individual, community and societal level

You show an understanding of sexuality and gender diversity