380.668.01
International Perspectives On Women, Gender, and Health
- Location:
- East Baltimore
- Term:
- 4th term
- Department:
- Population, Family and Reproductive Health
- Credits:
- 3 credits
- Academic Year:
- 2019 - 2020
- Instruction Method:
- TBD
- Class Times:
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- Friday, 1:30 - 4:50pm
- Auditors Allowed:
- Yes, with instructor consent
- Undergrads Allowed:
- Yes
- Grading Restriction:
- Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
- Course Instructor:
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- Lori Heise
- Contact:
- Lori Heise
- Resources:
- Description:
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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:
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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
- Methods of Assessment:
Leading class discussion and literature review/critique.
- Instructor Consent:
No consent required