Abstract
Sexuality is a basic aspect of humanity. It is prevalent across the life course and throughout the history of all cultures. Given this premise, it was the researcher’s intent to examine the Master’s of Social Work curriculum at California State University, Sacramento for human sexuality content using an exploratory, quantitative study. 112 MSW students were surveyed using a convenience sampling. They were asked to utilize a Likert scale to rank the relevance of sexuality to twelve different areas/populations that social workers encounter: As hypothesized, MSW students found sexuality to be less significant to some populations. The curriculum was then examined for each of the foundation MSW courses, including practice, policy, diversity, research, and human behavior in the social environment, as well as possible electives. The extent to which those courses included human sexuality content was examined using a Likert scale and respondents were then asked to select in which form(s) that content was delivered. Human sexuality was included in all courses, some more that others, but it is apparent from the study that more can be done to integrate this important aspect of humanity into the MSW curriculum.