DEPARTMENT
OF HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES
WOMEN'S HEALTH
HCSV,
WMST, NURS 168-01 Spring 2005
Plumas 102,
Professor: Dr. Diana Flannery Office Hours: TR 12:30-2 & M 12-2
Office Phone: 898-4993 Mailbox: 607
I.
Course Description
This course will include an analysis of health issues,
which concern women throughout the life cycle.
The physiological, psychological, cultural, and political impact upon
women's well-being will be addressed.
This course fulfills the Natural Science (Subject Area B) for the Women's Issues Theme (Theme O). You must have completed at least 45 units of
coursework in order to receive theme credit. This course has a 2,500-word
writing requirement. Course writing
requirements are listed under Student Responsibilities.
II.
Texts
Ferrini, A. &
Flannery, D. (Eds. 2004). Women’s Health Supplementary Reading Packet
#32 available at Mr. Kopy (
The student will be able to:
1. List the types of research
utilized in the study of women’s health, using major research studies as
examples.
2. Distinguish the scientific
method from hearsay in interpreting material written about women’s health in
popular news.
3. Discuss critical findings
and implications of selected research studies exploring various health and
health care issues of women.
4. Discuss the status and
trends in the health of women and their care, with special attention to the
differences among ethnic and racial subgroups and the impact of poverty.
5. Explore selected
physiological changes a women’s body undergoes (i.e. Menarche, pregnancy,
childbirth, menopause, aging) and their psychosocial impact.
6. List and discuss the common
diseases and disorders of women (including STDs): description, causes, prevalence, risk
factors, symptoms, treatment, and prevention measures.
7. Analyze selected factors
which serve as barriers to women’s health status and way that public policy,
health organizations, and women themselves can enhance health promotion
behaviors.
8. Explore the history of
women’s health and the effect of feminist movements upon health status, health
research, and health care of women.
9. Gain knowledge and skills to
make informed decisions to enhance personal health status and medical care.
1.
Define varied feminist theories, perspectives and methods of studying
women as they relate to the discipline in which the course represents.
2.
Discuss the historical and current practices, institutions, and belief
systems that
maintain the subordination of women.
3.
Read materials by feminist writers and researchers.
4.
Identify ways women have brought about social, economic, and political
change.
5.
Explore the impact of class, race, gender, and sexuality on women’s
lives and
their place in society.
|
Day |
Topic |
Reading
Assignment |
|
1/25-27 |
Introduction
to Women's Health Women’s
Health Movement |
OBO.
25 OBO.
26,27 RP. 1-5 |
|
2/1-3 |
Women’s
Health Status Science
and Women's Health |
Picture due RP. 6-12 RP. 13-18 |
|
2/8-10 |
Women
and Drug Use Alcohol
and Tobacco |
OBO.
3,6 RP.25-29 |
|
2/15-17 |
Body
Image Disordered
Eating |
OBO.1
RP.19-24 |
|
2/24 2/26 |
EXAM #1 Sexuality
Survey |
RP. 30-34 |
|
3/1-3/3 |
Reproductive
Cycle |
OBO.12 Advocacy Letter Due |
|
3/8-10 |
Reproductive
Choices |
OBO.13,16,17
RP. 35-42 |
|
3/15-17 |
Spring Break! |
|
|
3/22-24 |
Pregnancy,
Childbearing, Breastfeeding |
OBO.19,20
RP. 43-48 Posters Due |
|
3/29- 4/5 |
Sexually
Transmissible Infections & HIV |
OBO.14,15
RP. 49-54 |
|
4/7 |
EXAM #2 |
Top Ten Draft Due |
|
4/12-14 |
Violence
Against Women |
OBO.
8 RP. 55-60 |
|
4/19-21 |
Common
Diseases/Disorders of Women |
OBO.
24 |
|
4/26-28 |
Breast
& Heart Health |
RP. 61-67 |
|
5/3-5 |
Health
in Mid- and Late-Life |
OBO.
23 RP. 68-72 Activity Paper Due/ Top
Ten Due |
|
5/10-12 5/19 |
Panel / ReviewFinal Exam Thursday |
|
Student Responsibilities
A.
Participate in a 3 exams at the appointed time. Dates are listed on the outline.
B.
Attend each class prepared and ready to discuss read EACH article and
chapter, contribute to class discussions, and participate in planned
activities. Attendance will be recorded. For each absence over 3, your final
grade will be reduced 1/3 letter grade.
C.
Respect: Respect the diversity of experience, values, and thoughts
presented and explored in class. Conduct yourself professionally in all
classroom interactions.
D. Submit high quality assignments on time. Assignments must be submitted at the beginning of the class session in which they are due. Any papers submitted after this time will be deducted by half. No papers will be accepted after one day from the due date for any reason.
Use
proper and complete citation for all materials and sources. Ideas and information taken from others MUST
be properly cited. Any direct quote must be enclosed in quotation marks and
cited (use author/page number).
Have
assignment ready at the beginning of class each day. If you have to miss a class session, you may
turn your work in early.
E.
Review daily discussion questions found in the
Mr. Kopy Reading Packet.
F. Submit a picture with a brief biography.
(5 points)
Attach
a recent photo of you on a 5x8 notecard and tell me about you…be sure to
include your exceptionality, qualities/attributes, passions, feminist position,
family, current job etc…
G. How to Write a Protest Letter (see Article #60 in RP) (20 points)
Research a women’s health issue of concern to you.
Gather facts, identify current laws and problems, and investigate alternative
solutions regarding your women’s health issue. Develop a professional letter
that will be mailed to your congressperson, mayor, editor of a newspaper,
industry, etc. (obtain mailing address, names, and titles). Final letter should
be typed and error free. Include a stamped envelope attached with
a paper clip to your letter or
provide the email address used in the heading of letter.
TIPS: address it properly, identify bill or issue, letter should be timely, be reasonably brief, ask for a response, write your own views in a scholarly manner, give reasons for taking a stand, show understanding, be constructive (offer an alternative, use personal or business letterhead whenever possible, obtain additional signatures, use 2 references and cite appropriately, text is OK)
(see http://www.nwhn.org/
or http://www.capwiz.com/now/home/ for ideas)
H. Attend a Woman Centered Event (Paper due 1
week after event) (25 points)
Select an event you can attend in the
Breaking
the Silence Concert March 29,
Sandra
Steingraber, April 6,
Naomi
Tutu April 23,
I.
Breaking the Silence Art Project (Due March 22) (25
points)
Create a poster or art piece for the Breaking the
Silence campus event. The theme is
stopping hate crimes with an emphasis on the GLBTQ community. Grading will be
based on creativity, impact, effort, and stopping violence theme.
J.
Top Ten Reasons
(1st Draft, Due April 7; Final May 5) (50 points)
Research a women’s health issue of concern
to you. Gather facts, identify current laws and problems, and investigate
prevention factors regarding your health issue.
Subheadings should include: Topics
may include:
Define health problem or condition or
disease Breastfeeding or
BC
Prevalence (National/International) Condition of
pregnancy
Poverty factors Heart
Disease or Obesity
Racial factors Breast Cancer or other type
Why women are at risk Hormone
Disruption
Corporate/media influence Cosmetics
or Plastics
Public Health & Government Position Alcohol or Tobacco
Advocacy position Violence
Develop a pro-woman flyer that can be distributed at women
center events or used for tabling, etc…. Final document should be typed and
errors free, printed on hard stock paper, include pictures, creative fonts, and complete referencing.
VI. Evaluation
|
Bio Notecard |
5 |
A = 94-100 |
A-= 90-93 |
|
Letter |
20 |
B+= 88-89 |
B = 84-87 |
|
Poster |
25 |
B-= 80-83 |
C+= 78-79 |
|
Event Summary |
25 |
C = 74-77 |
C-= 70-73 |
|
Top Ten Reasons |
50 |
D+=67-69 |
D = 64-66 |
|
Exam 1 |
100 |
D-= 240-251 |
F = 63 or less |
|
Exam 2 |
75 |
|
|
|
Exam 3 |
100 |
|
|
|
Total |
400 |
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Blood donation