The Minor in Human Sexuality Studies provides students with knowledge about the processes and variations in: sexual functions and reproduction; intimate relationships; sexual and gender role development and behavior; and the social, cultural, historical and moral contexts of sex and love. This interdisciplinary field relies primarily on faculty from the Colleges of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Health and Human Services, Humanities, and Science, who serve as advisers to students wishing information or assistance in making curricular choices. Students can use the Minor in Human Sexuality Studies to complement their majors. The program provides an opportunity to gain basic knowledge; develop an awareness of attitudes; and to acquire skills for counseling, teaching, and conducting research. The minor is unique because there are few others like it in the US, but also because it takes a multi-disciplinary perspective on human sexuality.

The Minor in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies intends to delineate and analyze meanings that have been associated with homosexuality in various artistic, biological, cultural, educational, ethical, historical, and literary contexts; and examine the related issues of mixed-gender and cross-gender roles and practices.This minor is exceptional for the way in which it attracts those students who express a desire to obtain a learning experience that informs their own life challenges and rewards as LGBT individuals. Furthermore, the students who take this minor express a deep sense of pride of the fact that they can be full participants in a curriculum that acknowledges their full range of their personalities, interests, and sexualities. The Department of Human Sexuality Studies responds to this involvement of the students by offering them a series of courses in which they can learn the depth of LGBT perspective. This minor has more educational value than introducing students to a body of knowledge alone. It fulfills and emancipatory function that many students have come to expect at San Francisco State University. It supports the building of a community of LGBT students who use that cohesion to build stronger communities on campus and off campus, now and in their future careers.

Both minors are broadly interdisciplinary. It draws courses from anthropology, biology, cinema, counseling, English, history, human sexuality studies, psychology, NEXA, social sciences, speech and communication studies, women studies and other courses which may be substituted if approved by your advisor

SEGMENT III: (GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS) RELATIONSHIPS TO KNOWLEDGE
Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Perspectives (10-11 units)
(Advisor: Christopher Carrington)
Human Sexuality: Biological, Psychological, Sociocultural, and Humanistic Aspects (Advisor: Ann Auleb)