COM 2406 Gender and Health Communication

COM 2406 Gender and Health Communication

Pathways: US Experience in Its Diversity

Gender-related health issues have always been the subject of sensitive social, cultural, and political debate. This course explores current healthcare practices, experiences, and systems that are both affecting and affected by gender norms, performances, and representations. A critical review and analysis of the ways sexual minorities have been treated by health institutions in the major stages of human history are conducted in the class. Students learn the complex interplay among health, communication, and gender, with specific focus on how gender-based communication practices affect people’s everyday decisions and choices in medical care, and on what we can do to improve the current healthcare system and environment.

HUS 3630 Diversity and Intersectionality

HUS 3630 Diversity and Intersectionality

Pathways: Electives

Develops active respect towards differences in perspectives, experiences, values, and history within a critical framework for understanding mechanisms of oppression and structural forms of power and privilege. Examines the interconnections with groups who have a shared history of oppression. Emphasis is on marginalized groups, race, and gender equity, and change strategies to promote social justice.