GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND GLOBAL HEALTH
Provides an introductory overview to critical global health studies, linking past trends to current research and health inequalities. Examines current trajectories in disaster relief and public health interventions through a gendered lens, with a solid grounding in the historical context. Explores social, demographic, political, economic, and ecological determinants of global health, and the ways that these factors interconnect with biomedicine to create and affect health outcomes, both within and across countries. Uses an intersectional approach to analyze how public health policies prioritize whose lives represent "save-able" or "salvageable" ones in the public, political, and corporate eye.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Natural Science & Wellness + Lab Breadth - Social Science Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify key current gendered and sexual health concerns around the globe. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Critically analyze the intellectual history of the global health field, tracing its origins from colonial medicine through to the current day using the lens of gender and sexuality. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Appraise the ways that colonialism, scientific racism, misogyny, and other forms of structural exclusion shape the global health field and its objects/methods of study Audience: Undergraduate 4. Question the neutrality of quantitative global health metrics, and understand indicators as a contested form of knowledge production. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Develop analytical thinking and improve written and spoken communication skills. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Engage empathic connections, intellectual exploration, and ethical actions in the face of gendered health inequalities. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify key current gendered and sexual health concerns around the globe. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Critically analyze the intellectual history of the global health field, tracing its origins from colonial medicine through to the current day using the lens of gender and sexuality. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Appraise the ways that colonialism, scientific racism, misogyny, and other forms of structural exclusion shape the global health field and its objects/methods of study Audience: Undergraduate 4. Question the neutrality of quantitative global health metrics, and understand indicators as a contested form of knowledge production. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Develop analytical thinking and improve written and spoken communication skills. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Engage empathic connections, intellectual exploration, and ethical actions in the face of gendered health inequalities. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027