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HLTH200 Introduction to Women's Health Issues

3 credits

2250

None

This course meets the General Education requirement for Critical Thinking
This course meets the General Education requirement for Diversity.

This course is an introduction to the personal and social concerns of women's past and present health trends. Emphasis will be placed on the historical perspective of women's health, including an exploration of psychological, physiological, and social barriers to women's health. The holistic model of wellness will be examined.

Course Learning Goals

Students will:
1. identify the major physical, mental, social, and emotional issues affecting women's health in the past and present and forecast future implications [Critical Thinking];
2. investigate, through research, major health problems of women that relate to the leading causes of death for women in various phases of the life cycle;
3. summarize and critique various viewpoints and theories of major health practitioners in the woman's health field [Diversity];
4. discuss facets of women's health, such as feminism, body image, drug abuse, violence against women, childbearing, disease, midlife and elderly health issues [Diversity]; and
5. analyze and interpret historical aspects of the women's health movement, and current literature on woman's health issues, including psychological, physiological, and spiritual barriers that have and often still affect woman's health.
Planned Sequence of Topics and/or Learning Activities

Course Outline:
1. Feminism and the Women's Health Movement
2. Women's Health Status
3. Science and Women's Health
4. Body Image
5. Women and Drug Abuse
6. Violence against Women
7. Women's Sexual Health
8. Childbearing
9. The Politics of Disease
10. Midlife Health Issues
Assessment Methods for Course Learning Goals

Students will be assessed on the following:
1. Writing assignment and oral presentation
2. Quizzes and examinations
3. Class participation
4. Other projects, as specified in individual instructor's class format
Reference, Resource, or Learning Materials to be used by Student:
The required textbook is selected by the full-time faculty teaching the course. Details are provided in the course syllabus, which is created by the instructor and distributed to each student upon enrollment and attendance in class.