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.

ENG 2190 Expressions of Identity

ENG 2190 Expressions of Identity: Representations of Gender and Space in Literature (WI)

Pathways: US Experience in its Diversity

Focuses on space and place: personal, home/household, communal, virtual, digital, or global representations as they relate to self-perception and gender identity. Here, students will read works that explore the unique relationship between gender identity roles/expectations and the form and function of different types of place and space as being gender specific. Students will study environment, race, physical space, (C)lass, culture, gender roles, and sex and sexuality.

ENG 2180 Studies in Identity and Orientation

ENG 2180 Studies in Identity and Orientation (WI)

Pathways: US Experience in its Diversity

Provides students with an introductory understanding of identity, focusing specifically on the concepts of gender and sexuality as they intersect with race, class, ethnicity, and other aspects of social location and identification. Students will analyze the appearance of gender and sexuality as integrated social concepts by reading and discussing contemporary American texts across multiple genres and media.