Fall 2026

Human Sexuality: Social and Psychological Issues

PSYCH/SOC 160 examines the biological, psychological, and sociological aspects of sexual relationships and behavior across the life-course, considering gender, religion, education, and law.

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Summary

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Historical reviews of Cabell Gathman, John Delamater: Reviewers consistently report a heavy reading load across instructors, requiring weekly completion of texts for quizzes. While some find the workload manageable with skimming or attendance, others note that tests are tricky and require significant memorization and note-taking.

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Prerequisites

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Not open to students with credit forSOC/​PSYCH 453.

PSYCH/SOC 160

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Professors

Fall 2026

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

No current instructor reviews exist. Historical reviews describe John Delamater as engaging and helpful, while Frankie Frank is praised for being personable and making lectures enjoyable. Cabell Gathman receives mixed feedback, with some noting clear expectations and others citing extremely harsh grading.

CABELL GATHMAN is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JOHN DELAMATER is recorded teaching in Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

KATHARINE LEGUN is recorded teaching in Fall 2011. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

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Student experience

the class

Historical reviews for Frankie Frank describe an engaging, hilarious, and caring instructor who makes lectures enjoyable and the course work easy, with open-note exams. Reviewers highlight her personable nature and the positive impact the class had on their perspective.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.46 GPA, 73.9% A/AB (n=157 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.25 GPA, 65.6% A/AB (n=131 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.17 GPA, 50.5% A/AB (n=103 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Historical reviews of Cabell Gathman, John Delamater: Reviewers consistently report a heavy reading load across instructors, requiring weekly completion of texts for quizzes. While some find the workload manageable with skimming or attendance, others note that tests are tricky and require significant memorization and note-taking.

Historical reviews of Cabell Gathman, John Delamater: Students value structured classes with clear expectations, though discussion sections are sometimes deemed worthless. Conversely, some students find the specific grading criteria frustrating, particularly when tests rely on random details from lectures or when essay grading is perceived as extremely harsh.

Topics

  • Sexuality throughout the life-course (childhood, adolescence, adulthood, later life)
  • Gender, religion, education, and law in relation to sexual expression

Grades

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.12 GPA average error.

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1320 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Model & dataset provenance
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