Bulletin--Women's Health Issues Program

Women's Health Issues

College of Health and Human Services
Dean: Gail Whitaker (Interim)

Women's Health Issues Program
GYM 306
415-338-1413
Director: Mary Beth Love

Faculty
Professors—LeVeen, Schuetz

Program
Minor in Women's Health Issues

Program Scope
The minor offers three areas of focus: (1) theory about women's social roles and status implications for women's health; (2) organizing and managing health services, health education, and health delivery systems; (3) politics, policy analysis, and strategies for changing women's health policies. Students take a core course in each of these areas, then choose three electives which may be concentrated within one area or drawn from several areas, and then complete a culminating research project or internship. The choice of electives and final research project or internship is chosen in consultation with an adviser in order to meet the needs and interests of the individual student.

Career Outlook
A minor in women's health is a natural complement to a variety of majors such as nursing, health education, counseling, psychology, urban studies, or other human service careers.

MINOR IN WOMEN'S HEALTH ISSUES

Courses for this discipline are listed in alphabetical sequence (see course discipline listing in the Announcement of Courses section).

Core Courses					Units
Social Determinants
WOMS 200	Women: The Basic Question	   3
Health Services and Education
HED 414		Women's Health: Issues and 
		Problems			   3
Politics and Policy
URBS/LABR 570	Urban Health Systems		   3
Electives
Three courses selected from one or more of the 
areas of focus in consultation with an adviser	9-12
Social Determinants
PSY 458		Psychology of Women
SOC 476		Medical Sociology (4)
SOC 469		Sex Roles and Society (4)
WOMS 510	Women and Interpersonal Violence
WOMS 510	Women and Institutional Violence
WOMS 590	The Aging Woman
CFS 453		Nutrition and the Life Cycle
BLS 370		Health, Medicine, and Nutrition 
		in the Black Community
Health Services and Health Education
SOC 476		Medical Sociology (4)
HED 312		Consumer Health
HED 410		Organization and Function of 
		Health Services
HED 430		Foundations of Community Health 
		Education
HED 431		Community Health Education: 
		Planning, Implementation, 
		Evaluation
Politics and Policy
ECON 475	Economics of Health and Medical 
		Care Finances
HED 312		Consumer Health
HED 450		Contemporary Issues in Health
PLSI/URBS 480	Public Policy and Policy 
		Analysis (4)
URBS/SW 456	Urban Community Organizing and 
		Citizen Action
URBS 565	Social Policy Planning (4)
WOMS 590	Politics of Reproduction
LARA 210	Latino Health Care Perspec-
		tives
Final Integrative Project/Internship
One of the following in consultation with the 
adviser						 3-6
	HED 480		Fieldwork in Community 
			Health (3-6)
	HED 699		Special Study (1-3)
	URBS 650/651	Urban Internship/
			Seminar (3/1)
	URBS 686	Fieldwork in Urban 
			Studies (1-4)
	WOMS 695	Women's Studies 
			Internship
	WOMS 698	Work Study in Feminist 
			Projects (1-3)
		Minimum total			  21
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