Advanced Topics in Women, Gender and Health

WGH 207 Subject & Catalog Number

Description

This interdepartmental, interdisciplinary seminar provides a forum to analyze how diverse gender-related constructs (including identity, expression, and behavior) influence public health research and practice. Invited speakers give examples of cutting-edge issues in public health research and practice, focusing on how gender contributes to understanding and intervening on population distributions of health, disease, and well-being, with an eye towards intersectionality in relation to racism, classism, heterosexism, cissexism, and other forms of social inequity and context. The structure of the course combines lectures by guest speakers who are working in the field of women, gender, and health, and in-depth student-led discussions of assigned readings/media. Students create brief teaching examples that use gender-based analysis while cultivating core skills in public health.