Women’s Health

Catalog description

This course explores issues related to women, gender, and health from various interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives. The course also explores how biological, social, cultural, economic, environmental, behavioral, and political factors influence women’s health. Throughout the course, concerns including eating disorders, mental health, reproductive health, cancer, sexual violence and cardiovascular diseases will be discussed using different frameworks and will be presented in the context of a woman’s life course. Methodological and ethical issues in women’s health research will also be discussed.