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Dec 08, 2025
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IHS 6230 - Global Reproductive Health: Exploring Culture and Reproduction in a Global World
This course examines reproduction in the context of global health and health care. Students critically evaluate maternal health and reproductive practices across different contexts to understand how culture is shaped and changed by global flows of health and health care. Global interventions for addressing reproductive health issues are explored.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to describe the breadth of norms and expectations for pregnancy, birth, and parenthood in different cultures
- Students will be able to interpret the values and organization of the respective cultures/communities reflected in different reproductive norms and practices
- Students will be able to evaluate models for authoritative knowledge, stratified reproduction, and cultural relativism in a global health context
- Students will be able to analyze the successes and failures of exporting Western biomedical technology, practice, or principles to address a reproductive health problem in a country/culture
- Students will be able to analyze how ethnographic methods can be used to understand a reproductive health problem in a specific country/culture
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