Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Selected topics in areas not currently offered within the undergraduate course offerings.

COURSE DETAILS:

Gender equality is not only a fundamental right, but necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable world. While vast progress has been made to improve girls’ education, reduce forced child marriage, accelerate women into leadership positions, and reform laws to advance gender equality, many gaps remain including high sustained levels of intimate partner violence disproportionately experienced by young women, girls, and 2S/LGBTQ+ youth. Gender inequities have been exacerbated due to the COVID-19 pandemic and contribute to poor sexual reproductive and mental health outcomes and have generational implications for the health, wellbeing, and rights of all women, girls, and gender diverse communities across their life course. Gender inequities are also being worsened due to the climate crisis, which, without considerable attention, will surely worsen with our ever-warming planet. This course will examine intersections of gender equality, sexual and reproductive health, and mental health using interdisciplinary, intersectional, community-based, and feminist approaches and theories. Students will be especially encouraged to think critically about how progress towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 5: To achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls has been monitored, and how and if current measures to monitor progress are appropriate for a diversity of young women and gender non-conforming individuals. Topics will include gender theories from across the globe; conceptualizations and applications of gender equality and gender equity and sexual and reproductive health and rights; gender considerations in times of crisis; gender-based violence; mental health; gender transformative approaches; youth engagement in research and practice; data justice in monitoring progress towards SDG 5; and critical examinations into gender equality and gender equity measurement science.


Pre-Requisites: 90 units, including at least 15 upper division HSCI units with a minimum grade of C-

 

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

By the end of the course, student should be able to:

• Engage in critical thinking on theories of gender and sexuality in relation to the literature on mental health and sexual and reproductive health and rights in times of crises as well as global development;
• Understand the emergence and evidence surrounding gender transformative approaches in advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights and mental health during times of crises (e.g., climate change, COVID-19);
• Critically evaluate the ways in which gender equity has been measured in health research;
• Conduct an intersectional analysis on a gender transformative study or intervention and make recommendation for future initiative related to the topic area

 

Grading

Materials

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REQUIRED READING

Original articles will be assigned each week 

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