GENDER AND GLOBAL HEALTH IN CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE
Examines the contemporary global health project in historical and cultural context, highlighting some of the greatest sources of tension and struggle. Using a feminist lens and focusing on gender as key analytic category, explores the ways that the distribution of global wealth and power impacts health and well-being around the world. Explores social, demographic, political and economic determinants of global health, and the ways that these factors interconnect with biomedicine to create and affect health outcomes, both within and across countries. Drawing on critical theories, situates the study and practice of global health in an intersectional framework.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science 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 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Critically analyze the intellectual history of the global health field, tracing its origins from colonial medicine through to the current day using a gendered lens Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. 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: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Question the neutrality of quantitative global health metrics, and understand indicators as a contested form of knowledge production. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Describe several current global health issues related to gender in-depth, as well as their contexts Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Synthesize information from multiple sources and present it both in oral and written formats. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Perform original global health research that integrates feminist theories with empirical public health approaches. Audience: Graduate 7. Conduct advanced analysis of global health policies and programs using a critical lens. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Critically analyze the intellectual history of the global health field, tracing its origins from colonial medicine through to the current day using a gendered lens Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. 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: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Question the neutrality of quantitative global health metrics, and understand indicators as a contested form of knowledge production. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Describe several current global health issues related to gender in-depth, as well as their contexts Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Synthesize information from multiple sources and present it both in oral and written formats. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Perform original global health research that integrates feminist theories with empirical public health approaches. Audience: Graduate 7. Conduct advanced analysis of global health policies and programs using a critical lens. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027