Crosslisted: AP/WMST 3511, GL/WMST 3511, GL/SOSC 3990 This course examines the constructions of women's sexualities historically and currently. The influence of religion, medicine, law, media and the state are critically examined as are women's attempts to shape their own sexuality as heterosexuals, bi-sexuals and lesbians.
Emphasizing the interplay of culture, history and political economy, this course explores health problems in the developing world. Topics include analyses of international health development ideology and practice, case studies in infectious diseases, maternal mortality, child survival, hunger and malnutrition.
Crosslisted: AP/ANTH 3190 This course examines nutritional anthropology from a biocultural perspective, stressing the social and cultural determinants of food use in industrial and developing societies. It examines the linkages between food, health and ethnic identity in the context of globalization.
Crosslisted: AP/SOSC 4150 We will examine the perceptions and the reality of caring for an older person. There are personal, family and societal implications as we look at innovations in caregiving, dealing with various disabilities and illnesses. We examine breakthroughs as well as barriers to care. Technology, music, continuing education, brain studies are a few […]
This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of the connections between food, health and society. Food is critical to our very survival. But beyond simply preventing starvation, how much we eat and which kinds of food we eat are key factors in determining a whole range of both immediate and long-term health outcomes. Because of this, […]
This interdisciplinary course presents health as rooted in and shaped, informed and understood by place. Students learn that health and place is about climate, geography, sociability, health democracy, landscape, the body, food, and culture. Working collaboratively with web-based technologies and applying concepts and skills acquired in the course, learners undertake an extensive neighbourhood/ community case […]
This course is an interdisciplinary examination of health and humanitarianism, with particular attention to how this field is shaped by historical, social and political-economic forces. The course focuses on the key actors, institutions and ideologies involved in health and humanitarianism, as well as on their diverse and sometimes conflicting agendas. This analysis is used to […]
This course is designed for fourth year students in social sciences interested in neurosciences and psychiatry. It introduces students to different disciplinary perspectives on neurosciences, the self, neuropsychiatry, and narratives of the brain in contemporary biomedicine. This seminar leads advanced students through explorations of epistemological and ontological shifts in neurosciences and personhood, in both the […]
This course considers the way in which researchers and practitioners have used arts-based methods and methodologies in order to engage communities, disseminate findings and intervene in critical issues related to health. Students will examine how creative resistance can function as a powerful tool for social change and a necessary component in knowledge creation and translation. […]
This course focuses on developing research, analytical and writing skills through individual research, discussion, group collaboration, and individual and group writing. The goal of this course is to research the area of women and health with a particular emphasis on the relationship between biological and social conceptions of women’s health and emphasis on the different […]