380.668.01
International Perspectives on Women, Gender, and Health
Location
East Baltimore
Term
4th Term
Department
Population, Family and Reproductive Health
Credit(s)
3
Academic Year
2024 - 2025
Instruction Method
In-person
M, W, 10:30 - 11:50am
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
Yes
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
None
Covers key issues in the development and evolution of gender as a social system across the life course, the role of norms in enforcing and reinforcing the gender system, and how gender interacts with sex, class, race, and other social determinants of health to impact health outcomes through interactive sessions with course instructors and expert guest lecturers. Discusses gender analysis and gender-transformative interventions. Examines women’s health issues related both to reproductive and non-reproductive health in low- and middle-income contexts with an emphasis on how gender systems influence health. Impacts across the gender spectrum are also discussed.
Learning Objectives
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 how settings and institutions can become “gendered” and how this affects the 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
This course is evaluated as follows:
- 20% Participation
- 20% Discussion
- 20% Group Work
- 40% Final Paper