HDAS 4020 - Birth and Parenthood

(3) Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 and HDAS 3000 both with a grade of “C” or better or Permission of Instructor
Students will analyze experiences of birth and parenthood both nationally and globally. Students will address the experiences of procreation and parenting historically, culturally, using a constructionist perspectives. Students will look at state and federal policies and the way regulation and surveillance have shaped procreation and parenting issues. Other course topics will include: procreative politics, medical and non-medical constructions of pregnancy, care giving, birth control, adoption, and parenthood. We will primarily intersectional, and feminist perspectives.