Human Sexuality: Me, My Sex and I

Human Sexuality: Me, My Sex and I

 

 

Instructions:   Watch the film Me, My Sex and I:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMKT99tCmUk

 

Then answer the following questions:

 

 

1. According to the film, what does intersex mean?

 

 

2. What are DSDs? How many types of DSDs are there according to the film?

 

 

3. How many people in NYC would have a DSD according to the statistics presented in the film?

 

 

4. Imagine you had a child who was intersexed. How do you think you would feel or respond?

 

 

5. Would you surgically choose their gender for them (i.e., have doctors sew the vaginal tissue closed or remove the penile tissue to make them closer to male or female)? Explain why or why not.

 

 

6. What is your opinion on public toilets that are non-gender specific (unisex toilets)?

 

 

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Active Emphatic Listening

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Prepare: As you prepare to write this discussion post, take a few moments to
Read the writing prompt below in its entirety. Notice that there are three tasks to complete:
Complete the following listening survey and record your results: Active Listening Skills
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Using Bevan and Sole (2014), start formulating preliminary definitions of empathy and active empathic listening. Emotional intelligence is also important in thinking through effective listening. Please define it as well.

Consider how empathy and active empathic listening specifically can help you improve your personal and professional communication.

Reread Section 7.2: Conversation Management – Listening.
Read Chapter 8 on empathy and active empathic listening.
Review the grading rubric.

Write: Based on your quiz results and what you learned in Chapter 7, section 7.2 and Chapter 8, section 8.3 of the textbook, answer the following questions:

What is your willingness-to-listen score? What feedback did you receive from the quiz?
Based on Bevan and Sole, describe “active empathic listening” and define “emotional intelligence.”
How can you use active empathic listening and emotional intelligence to help you improve your communication both in your personal interactions and in the workplace? Please provide examples to illustrate these points.

Thoroughly address all three elements of this prompt by writing at least two to three sentences on each element. Use the course readings at least once to help you make your points. Consider copying and pasting these tasks into a word file and addressing each of them separately.