Revel Access Code for Human Sexuality

About Roger Hock

Roger R. Hock PhD is a professor of psychology and human sexuality at Mendocino College in northern California. He received his MA in Psychology from San Diego State University and his PhD in Psychology from the University of California at San Diego. He is also the author of Forty Studies that Changed Psychology: Explorations into the History of Psychological Research (Pearson 2012) and coauthor (with Meg Kennedy Dugan) of Its My Life Now: Starting over after an Abusive Relationship or Domestic Violence (Routledge 2006) and (with Amy Marin) Psychology a digital introductory psychology textbook from Pearson Education. Dr. Hock has been teaching psychology and human sexuality for over twenty-five years. Human Sexuality is his favorite class to teach and is consistently one of the most popular among students. He believes that Human Sexuality is an essential course for college students because the topics covered are fundamental to our lives and our identities as humans. He asserts that the Human Sexuality course should be a requirement for all undergraduate college and university students. Why? Because the material in this course touches everyone in countless ways throughout their lives. But more importantly students upon entering college as adults often lack a complete and current understanding of at least some if not many key issues that combine to create the complexities of humans as sexual beings. Sex education in grades K12 tends to be incomplete inadequate sometimes misleading and too often nonexistent. Moreover not all parents are willing or able to impart the necessary and correct information to their children. Students in higher education clearly need and deserve the knowledge they acquire in this class.