SPHU 2410-01 Health & Women’s Rights: Tuesday and Thursday, 9:30am-10:45am in Norman Mayer Building room 101.
This course addresses health and women’s rights around the world from health equity, gender, and ethnicity perspectives. The main topics are: women’s human rights and gender equality, discrimination against women and girls; rights of LGBTI people; gender-based violence; early marriage and pregnancy; right to contraception and abortion; forced sterilizations and abortions, and virginity examinations; female genital mutilation; maternal mortality; sexual transmission of HIV; trafficking of women and girls; women’s rights during complex humanitarian emergencies; migration and reproductive health; and postcolonial feminism and health. The course contextualizes and analyzes: 1) health and women’s rights within their economic and political context, 2) the social inequality roots of health and women’s rights issues, and 3) the main health and rights challenges faced by women and girls. It uses country case studies from around the world. It is open to all undergraduate students.
This course is open to any major.
SPHU 2420-01 Health Challenges & Climate Change: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 2:00pm-2:50pm in Boggs room 104.
Climate change affects the very basic foundations of health -adequate and nutritious food, safe water, fresh air, and secure shelter. This course introduces the direct and indirect links between climate change and human health. Examples of health impacts related to climate change will include those arising from drought induced water and food insecurity, vector-borne and water-borne diseases, temperature extremes, wildfires, and extreme hydrological events. Underlying socio ecological determinants that influence exposure and vulnerability will be described. The course will also explore opportunities for mitigation and adaptation to reduce the threats of climate change. Case studies of how countries are responding to the health challenges posed by climate change will be presented.
This course is open to any major.