Course Content and Outcomes Guides (CCOG)

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Effective Term:
Fall 2018 through Summer 2020

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. 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. Use information from credible research to identify 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.

Outcome Assessment Strategies

  • Written examination

  • Critical analysis of material

  • Journaling and self assessment

  • Group problem solving

  • Class room activities and discussion

  • Oral presentation

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

PROCESS SKILLS

Critical thinking

  • compare

  • predict

  • hypothesize

  • problem solving

  • decision making

Communication skills

  • oral and written communication
  • computer literacy
  • calibration skills
  • cooperative group work

Intrapersonal skills

  • values clarification

  • reflective journal writing

Information Access Skills

  • collect qualitative and quantitative data

  • access current information

  • evaluate validity

THEMES, CONCEPTS, IDEAS

  • Analyze how social, cultural and historical perspectives influence a woman’s self perception of her personal health.

  • Increase health knowledge of current women’s health issues

  • Analyze how behaviors, beliefs, values and attitudes influence a woman’s current health status.