Health and Disability

Health and Disability provides students with the knowledge of the ways in which gender, sexuality, race and other factors shape access to health care and health outcomes and how fields such as medicine and biology shape our understandings of gender, sexuality, and race.

Examples of courses that would satisfy requirements for Health and Disability (where appropriate, courses can be counted for more than one concentration):

GSWS 216: Gender & Health
GSWS 235: Psychology of Women
GSWS 252: Freud
GSWS 332: Queer Science
GSWS 344: Psychology of Personal Growth
GSWS 588: The Politics of Women's Health Care
HSOC 010: Health & Societies
HSOC 331: Reproductive Medicine
HSOC 334: Birth Control & Med Tech
HSOC 102: Bioethics
HSOC 459: Defining Disability
HIST 273/277: Penn & Slavery Project
NURS 215: Nursing of Women and Infants
NURS 303/503: Contemporary Issues in Human Sexuality & Health
NURS 342/542: LGBTQ Health
NURS 360: Case Study: Nursing Practice With HIV+ Patients
NURS 518: Nursing & Gendering of Health Care in U.S. and Internationally 1860-2000
AFRC 301: Race, Science & Justice