We are members of the Concordia student body and staff or engaged community members who would like to request the offering of a Fundamentals of Sexuality and Gender course in the Department of Psychology, Undergraduate level.

Gender and sexuality are prime facets of human experience and as such have considerable impact on our mental health and wellbeing. The psychology of Sexuality and Gender is a field with a considerable and growing body of research, intersecting with core components of cognitive, behavioural, social, and personality approaches to understanding human psychology. We believe this research to be essential to our studies.

We are requesting that Concordia offer an undergraduate level course that discusses, for example, typical and atypical sexual behavior, sexual dysfunction, the history of sexuality and gender research, brain-based sexual behaviours, the sexual response cycle in the brain and body, gender identity, sexual orientation, physiological and cultural determinants of gender, power relationships in sexuality, etiology of sexual aggression, treatment options for recovery from sexual trauma etc., with an emphasis on current research and theory.

Other major Universities across Canada such as University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, and McGill offer similar Sexuality and Gender curriculum to their undergraduate psychology students. While our future ambitions may range from pursuing an academic research career to engaging in clinical practice, we all passionately desire the resources to understand and respond to this fundamental human drive.