PUBHLT 0443 - REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH IN THE US: POLICY, POLITICS, AND JUSTICE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on understanding how policies and politics shape reproductive health and wellbeing in the United States. The emphasis is on developing an understanding of current inequities, critical thinking skills, and communication skills. Reproductive Justice (RJ) is a human rights-based framework that will guide our approach understanding to these issues, and content will be organized around the following RJ principles: 1) the right not to have a child; 2) the right to have a child; and 3) the right to parent children in safe and healthy environments. Each class session will cover a specific reproductive health issue and review the topic’s major historical and current policy developments. Throughout the course, we will center the reproductive experiences of marginalized populations, specifically: Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, people living on low incomes, immigrants, people living with a disability, young people, trans and queer people, and people who use drugs. Some of the topics covered will include birth control, abortion, sterilization abuse, reproductive technologies, prenatal/postpartum care, and parenting support. Throughout the course we will examine the role of the health care system, social determinants of health, policy making and legal processes, why some interests are privileged over others, and reproductive choice versus justice-based advocacy.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: LVL: Junior or above
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