380.668.01
International Perspectives on Women, Gender, and Health
Location
East Baltimore
Term
4th Term
Department
Population, Family and Reproductive Health
Credit(s)
3
Academic Year
2018 - 2019
Instruction Method
TBD
Friday, 1:30 - 4:50pm
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
Yes
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Lori Heise
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Examines the ways by which the study of gender informs the study of health in the developing world with a focus on women's health issues. Explores the ways in which gender and sex help us to understand women's health and explain societal patterns of health, disease and well-being. Topics include both reproductive and nonreproductive health issues including mental health and physical health.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Articulate and apply an understanding of how gender as a social system and biological sex shape women’s health and well-being across the life-course
- Evaluate the distinction between health differences and health disparities as they apply among and between women, men and gender diverse individuals
- Identify through ethnographic observation and exploration of available evidence how settings and institutions can become “gendered” and how it affects lived experiences of women
- Apply an intersectional lens to understand how power, advantage, disadvantage, and gender norms create and maintain health disparities among communities of women and between women and men