This is the preliminary (or launch) version of the 2021-2022 VCU Bulletin. This edition includes all programs and courses approved by the publication deadline; however we may receive notification of additional program approvals after the launch. The final edition and full PDF version will include these updates and will be available in August prior to the beginning of the fall semester.
ANTH 309. Gender and Global Health. 3 Hours.
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Examines how health policies produce and regulate gendered bodies and sexualities. Topics may include how colonial medicine and health policies of detection, diagnosis, surveillance, quarantine and confinement were implemented as methods of social control. Analyzes continuities between colonial medicine and more contemporary interventions that in the name of individual and communal health attempt to shape proper sexualities and gendering. Crosslisted as: AFAM 309/INTL 309/GSWS 309.
African American Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
...Anthropology AFAM/ANTH/INTL 200 Introduction to African Societies 3 AFAM/ANTH/INTL 309 Gender...
Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) with a concentration in health, society and social justice
...society and social justice GSWS/AFAM/ANTH/INTL 309 Gender and Global Health 3 GSWS...
Health, Physical Education and Exercise Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) with a concentration in health science
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