Spring 2027

Gender, Sexuality, and Global Health

Introductory course on critical global health studies linking historical trends to current inequalities, examining disaster relief and interventions through a gendered and intersectional lens.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Ruth Goldstein4.0/5

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.84 GPA, 91.6% A/AB (n=107 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.62 GPA, 83.6% A/AB (n=134 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify key current gendered and sexual health concerns around the globe.

  • Critically analyze the intellectual history of the global health field, tracing its origins from colonial medicine through to the current day using the lens of gender and sexuality.

  • Appraise the ways that colonialism, scientific racism, misogyny, and other forms of structural exclusion shape the global health field and its objects/methods of study

  • Question the neutrality of quantitative global health metrics, and understand indicators as a contested form of knowledge production.

  • Develop analytical thinking and improve written and spoken communication skills.

  • Engage empathic connections, intellectual exploration, and ethical actions in the face of gendered health inequalities.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Raw average: 4.88/5 from 8 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.84 GPA, 91.6% A/AB (n=107 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

RUTH GOLDSTEIN is recorded teaching in Spring 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 1600
DIS 301Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 302Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 303Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 304Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 305Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 306Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 307Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 308Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 399Classroom Instruction0 / 30

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.84 GPA, 91.6% A/AB (n=107 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.62 GPA, 83.6% A/AB (n=134 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Disaster relief and public health interventions
  • Determinants of global health and biomedical interconnections
  • Colonialism, scientific racism, and structural exclusion
  • Global gendered and sexual health concerns

Skills

  • Intersectional analysis of public health policies
  • Critical appraisal of quantitative health metrics
  • Historical analysis of global health through gender lens
  • Written and spoken communication development

Grades

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GEN&WS 104 · Spring 2027

Gender, Sexuality, and Global Health

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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