Course Content and Outcomes Guides (CCOG)

CCOG for HE 212 Winter 2025


Course Number:
HE 212
Course Title:
Women's Health
Credit Hours:
4
Lecture Hours:
40
Lecture/Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
0

Course Description

Examines women's health from a local, national, and global perspective. Explores cultural, social, behavioral, and environmental issues that influence women's health, investigates the causes and potential solutions for women's health issues, and introduces skills and strategies for health promotion and disease prevention. Analyzes facets of women's health, such as feminism, body image, drug abuse, violence against women, childbearing, disease, and aging. Prerequisites: WR 115, RD 115 and MTH 20 or equivalent placement test scores. Audit available.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

  1. Explain significant local, national, and global issues related to women's health and well-being.
  2. Analyze how cultural, behavioral, environmental, and social factors impact women's health and well-being.
  3. Describe the causes and potential solutions for challenges to women’s health.
  4. Identify and analyze evidence-based interventions focused on skills and strategies for health promotion and disease prevention.
  5. Analyze the effects of androcentricity on women’s health and health care.

Social Inquiry and Analysis

Students completing an associate degree at Portland Community College will be able to apply methods of inquiry and analysis to examine social contexts and the diversity of human thought and experience.

General education philosophy statement

Health Studies General Education courses encourage critical thinking about health, systems that influence individual and community health, and strategies that promote individual, community, and environmental health and well-being. Sociocultural constructs such as race, ethnicity, socio-economic class, age, and gender expression are powerful, centuries-old factors continuing to this day to shape women’s health and well-being. Analysis of the sociocultural constructs that impact women’s health and well-being, at both local and global levels, enables understanding and application of effective public health solutions that initiate positive change and enhance the lives of all women.

Outcome Assessment Strategies

At the beginning of the course, the instructor will detail the methods used to evaluate student progress and the criteria for assigning a course grade.

Assessment methods may include the following:

  • Written examinations
  • Written assignments
  • Critical analysis of material
  • Group problem solving
  • Class collaboration
  • Other activities and discussion
  • Self-reflection

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

  • Analyze how social, cultural, and historical perspectives influence women’s health.
  • Increase health knowledge of current women’s health issues
  • Analyze how behaviors, beliefs, values, and attitudes influence women’s current health status.