Spring 2027

Race, Gender, Health, and Medicine

Race, Gender, Health, and Medicine uses theoretical frameworks to analyze how race and gender shape health experiences, wellness, disease, and medical institutions.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Kelly Ward

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2009: 2.81 GPA, 42.9% A/AB (n=21 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=32 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Understand how the concepts "race" and "gender" are socially constructed and explore what this means for our understandings of health and disease.

  • Identify and describe how race and gender shape health outcomes and structures disparities.

  • Identify and describe how race and gender structure health institutions (e.g. hospitals, medical school, etc.).

  • Demonstrate understanding and engagement with course material and produce thoughtful and compelling arguments in assigned work.

  • Identify key theoretical frameworks concerning race, gender, health, and medicine and use these frameworks to conceptualize research and pedagogical projects.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Sophomore standing

  • Sophomore standing
GEN&WS 524

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  • Sophomore standing

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=32 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

KELLY WARD is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. 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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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2009: 2.81 GPA, 42.9% A/AB (n=21 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=32 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Social construction of race and gender
  • Structural organization of healthcare and medicine
  • Reproductive health, body size, mental health, and COVID-19
  • Intersectional analysis of health and medicine scholarship

Skills

  • Analyze the social construction of race and gender as it relates to health and disease.
  • Describe how race and gender shape health outcomes and structural disparities.
  • Explain how race and gender structure health institutions such as hospitals and medical schools.
  • Apply theoretical frameworks on race, gender, health, and medicine to conceptualize research and pedagogical projects.

Grades

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

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GEN&WS 524 · Spring 2027

Race, Gender, Health, and Medicine

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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