RACE, GENDER, HEALTH, AND MEDICINE
Uses race and gender theoretical frameworks to understand peoples' experiences with health and medicine. Conceptualizes race and gender as social categories and applies these frameworks to how people experience health, wellness, and disease. Examines how healthcare and medicine are structured according to racialized and gendered frameworks. Surveys a wide range of issues including reproductive health, body size, mental health, COVID, among other topics. Uses an intersectional approach to analyzing key debates in scholarship on health and medicine.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Civics & Perspectives Ethnic St - Ethnic Studies Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand how the concepts "race" and "gender" are socially constructed and explore what this means for our understandings of health and disease. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Identify and describe how race and gender shape health outcomes and structures disparities. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Identify and describe how race and gender structure health institutions (e.g. hospitals, medical school, etc.). Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Demonstrate understanding and engagement with course material and produce thoughtful and compelling arguments in assigned work. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Identify key theoretical frameworks concerning race, gender, health, and medicine and use these frameworks to conceptualize research and pedagogical projects. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand how the concepts "race" and "gender" are socially constructed and explore what this means for our understandings of health and disease. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Identify and describe how race and gender shape health outcomes and structures disparities. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Identify and describe how race and gender structure health institutions (e.g. hospitals, medical school, etc.). Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Demonstrate understanding and engagement with course material and produce thoughtful and compelling arguments in assigned work. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Identify key theoretical frameworks concerning race, gender, health, and medicine and use these frameworks to conceptualize research and pedagogical projects. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027