SPAN 1459 - MAPPING THE FEMALE BODY: A CULTURAL APPROACH TO WOMEN’S HEALTH IN THE HISPANIC WORLD

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course provides an overview of the female body and women’s health in Latin America and Spain from a cultural perspective, which addresses related social implications and health rights. Students will analyze women’s health issues through critical interpretation of literary texts, poems, movies, documentaries, and photography using media perspectives and theoretical approaches. Students will be exposed to topics across four overarching themes: adolescence, reproduction, illness, and aging, with subtopics such as sexuality, sexual orientation, gender identities in relation to transgender and intersex issues, pregnancy, infertility, breast cancer, menopause, and eating disorders, among others. At the same time, students will be exposed to a broader geographical and historical panorama by examining the relationship between women’s health issues to the political and cultural issues of different countries in the Hispanic world. Based on these particular contexts, communities, and identities, we will try to answer the question why these women’s issues happened in those regions and within specific communities. Students will be expected to engage in critical discussions, and will be given the opportunity to connect and contrast these issues with their own cultural experience.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., Undergraduate Research

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