GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND REPRODUCTION: PUBLIC HEALTH PERSPECTIVES
Explores several theoretical lenses, disciplinary approaches, and substantive topical areas relating to reproductive and sexual health. Begin by investigating the development of "sexual health" as a phenomenon in public health research, policy, and programs looking back to feminist responses to population control policies of the 1970s. Covers substantive topical areas in the field (e.g., adolescent sexual development, contraception, and AIDS).
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2023 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify theoretical approaches and methodologies in the fields of Gender and Women’s Studies and Public Health. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Analyze how gender, sexuality, and health are produced through historical, social, cultural, and political processes. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Identify and engage with interdisciplinary feminist critiques of the classic epidemiologic and medical research in the field of public health science. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Synthesize and apply literature to address public health policies and programs. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Create original arguments blending quantitative, qualitative and conceptual public health analysis. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify theoretical approaches and methodologies in the fields of Gender and Women’s Studies and Public Health. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Analyze how gender, sexuality, and health are produced through historical, social, cultural, and political processes. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Identify and engage with interdisciplinary feminist critiques of the classic epidemiologic and medical research in the field of public health science. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Synthesize and apply literature to address public health policies and programs. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Create original arguments blending quantitative, qualitative and conceptual public health analysis. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027