The below Gender & Women’s Studies courses still have open seats for the Spring 2024 semester! For more information on any of these course and to enroll, visit the Course Search & Enroll.
Gen&WS 104: Gender, Sexuality, and Global Health
First time being offered!
Provides an introductory overview to critical global health studies, linking past trends to current research and health inequalities. Examines current trajectories in disaster relief and public health interventions through a gendered lens, with a solid grounding in the historical context. Explores social, demographic, political, economic, and ecological determinants of global health, and the ways that these factors interconnect with biomedicine to create and affect health outcomes, both within and across countries. Uses an intersectional approach to analyze how public health policies prioritize whose lives represent “save-able” or “salvageable” ones in the public, political, and corporate eye.
Gen&WS 350: Women Writers and Social Fiction
Literature credit
Gen&WS 525: Gender and Global Health in Critical Perspective
Honors Only, but permission possible if they request is sent to Lachrista Greco, lachrista.greco@wisc.edu.
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.
Gen&WS 104: Gender, Sexuality, and Global Health
Gen&WS 350: Women Writers and Social Fiction
Gen&WS 525: Gender and Global Health in Critical Perspective
This post was authored by Academic Affairs on 12/07/2023.