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University of South Florida, College of Public Health
PHC 6934 — Global Maternal & Child Health (Spring 2025). This course is a comparative global perspective of Maternal and Child Health. Students will engage with approaches in Global Health, International Development, and Medical Anthropology to critically analyze the historical, political, and socioeconomic context of Global MCH and how multinational and nongovernmental organizations and government agencies respond to MCH issues. (PDF)
PHC 6934 — Reproductive Justice & Public Health (Spring 2024). This five-week graduate seminar explores reproductive justice, including the historical and political context of its emergences, its philosophical underpinnings in rights, justice, and praxis, its core principles, and its applications to both research and practice. (PDF)
PHC 6537 — Case Studies in MCH Programs, Policies, and Research (Spring 2024). This course is a capstone course intended for students near the completion of their MPH program with concentration in maternal and child health. The learner will build upon knowledge from previous courses and experience to effectively analyze MCH research, programs, and policy.
PHC 7935 — Public Health & the State (Fall 2022—now). This seminar-style course is a theoretical investigation of the historical and political conditions of health inequities, healthcare, and health research. Students will learn and discuss critical theoretical perspectives of labor, race, gender, disability, and other markers at the root of health inequities. The course is entirely focused on structural analyses of health, drawing on Political Determinants of Health, Critical Medical Anthropology, Gender Studies, Black Feminism, and more. This course is reading and writing intensive. Three broad themes of the course are: (1) What is the role of biomedicine in public health education, research, and practice? How are the possibilities of public health limited by its commitments to essentialist positivism? (2) What is the State’s relationship to health? How does the State maintain or neglect the health of its population? How does the State define health, healthcare, and health research? (3) With a clearer understanding of public health science and the role of the State, how might we move forward in creating new, innovative solutions to community and family health problems? (PDF)
PHC 7934 — Writing Scholarly Publications in the Health Sciences (Fall 2022). The purpose of this course is the development of skills that culminate in publishable works in health-related journals and other related publications, proposals for federal funding, and policy statements. There will be an emphasis on writing, editing, reviewing and other applicable skills.
PHC 6708 — Evaluation & Research Methods for Community Health (Summer 2022—now). This course covers contextual issues surrounding planning, evaluation, and research designs and methodological issues, theories and methods, qualitatitative and quantitative data and analyses, ethical issues, budgets, and communicating the results. Students are expected use these lessons to produce a funding proposal by the end of the semester. (PDF)
PHC 6532 — Women’s Health Issues in Public Health (Fall 2021—now). An analysis of the historical, social, and political aspects of women's health through the lifespan from a public health perspective, including how women’s roles as consumers and providers of care are shaped by public and cultural assumptions. Extensive discussions include: (1) the role of research in women’s health, (2) how women’s health is multi-disciplinary in nature, (3) the role of ethics in women’s health, (4) how advances in the health and social sciences have altered the ways in which women’s health is viewed and studied, and (5) how social determinants of health can impact women’s health issues. (PDF)
Washington University in St. Louis, Dept. of Anthropology
ANT 4022 — Transnational Reproductive Health Issues (Spring 2021). This course is oriented toward surveying a broad spectrum of anthropological work at the intersection of cross-cultural concepts of kinship and gender and global reproductive health, technologies, and rights. These works look at how reproductive health is practiced or challenged under historical, political, and economic forces. Topics include state surveillance, biotechnology, migration, medical landscapes, and more. The course readings draw heavily from Black, Indigenous, Feminist, and Queer scholarship within and on the edges of Medical Anthropology. The course readings are also supplemented with optional readings, news articles, and videos that trace connections from academic discourse directly to popular and current conversations. (PDF or Text-Only Word)
ANT 3004 — Second Sight: Topics in Visual Anthropology (Fall 2020). Visual anthropology is as old as the camera and, like North Atlantic anthropology, shares a long history with colonial exploitation and expansion. This course examines the history of both ethnographic film and photography and considers the ethics of visual anthropology in the 21st century. This survey of ethnographic film and photography aims to familiarize students with the concepts of visual anthropology and introduce a variety of ethnographic and media studies concepts, theories, methods, and ethical considerations. Drawing from a broad spectrum of materials, we will focus on analyzing film and photography in class, discuss ethics, challenge the boundaries of ethnographic conventions, and invite filmmakers and photographers into conversation via Zoom. (PDF)
ANT 160 — Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Summer 2020). Anthropology is the study of human societies, histories, and experiences, and how “culture” is shaped and mobilized by political and economic interests around the world. This course covers the basic concepts and theoretical principles of sociocultural anthropology. Topics include race, gender, kinship, health, medicine, economics, politics, history, and more. (PDF)