Reproductive Justice
Overview
A sample course outline may include the following topics.
Note: Content may vary according to the instructor’s selection of topics.
- Introduction to Reproductive Justice
- Reproductive Histories
- Theories of Reproduction
- Social Determinants of Health
- Colonization and Eugenics
- Reproductive Loss
- Birth
- Parenting and Normativity
- Opting Out
- Reproduction and [Dis]ability
- Reproduction in Science Fiction
- Age
- Post-Reproductive Life
- Geographies of Reproduction
- Reproductive Activism
The course will employ a number of instructional methods to accomplish its objectives, including some or all of the following:
- Small and large group discussions
- Audio-visual materials
- Internet exploration
- Interviews
- Seminar presentations
- Workshopping research processes and results
- Lectures (including guest lectures)
Evaluation will be carried out in accordance with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy and will include both formative and summative components. Instructors may use a student’s record of attendance and/or level of active participation in a course as part of the student’s graded performance. Where this occurs, expectations and grade calculations regarding class attendance and participation must be clearly defined in the Instructor Course Outline. Evaluation will be based on some or all of the following:
- Journal reflection
- Participating in class discussion
- Essays
- Research papers
- Oral presentations (individual and/or group)
- Community life research
- Collaborative creative projects
- Exams
A sample evaluation scheme may include:
- Course participation 20%
- Oral presentation 15%
- Research Proposal 15%
- Term Paper 30%
- Final exam 20%
- TOTAL: 100%
Students may conduct research with human participants as part of their coursework in this class. Instructors for the course are responsible for ensuring that student research projects comply with College policies on ethical conduct for research involving humans.
During this course successful students will develop and further their ability to:
- Engage in critical debates in reproductive health from intersectional, queer, and feminist theoretical perspectives;
- Interpret social, cultural, economic, and political changes within reproductive justice movements;
- Analyse structural barriers to health and wellness in relation to reproduction;
- Locate, examine, and engage in intersections of age, gender, race, Indigeneity, and [dis]ability in health-related social activism; locally and across the globe;
- Apply interdisciplinary approaches to research in issues of reproductive health.
A list of required texts and materials is provided on the instructor’s Course Syllabus, which is available to students at the beginning of each semester. An instructor’s course reader may be required.
Textbooks may include:
Tanya Saroj Bakhru, Reproductive Justice and Sexual Rights: Transnational Perspectives (UK: Routledge 2019).
Dana-Ain Davis, Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (New York: NYU Press, 2019).
Martha Paynter, Abortion to Abolition: Reproductive Health and Justice in Canada (Nova Scotia: Fernwood, 2022).
Loretta J Ross and Rickie Solinger. Reproductive Justice: An Introduction. (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017).
Requisites
Prerequisites
Two GSWS courses (six credits) or permission of the instructor
Corequisites
No corequisite courses.
Equivalencies
No equivalent courses.
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers
These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca
| Institution | Transfer details for GSWS 3101 |
|---|---|
| Alexander College (ALEX) | ALEX GSWS 2XX (3) |
| Athabasca University (AU) | AU WGST 3XX (3) |
| Camosun College (CAMO) | CAMO GSWS 2XX (3) |
| Capilano University (CAPU) | CAPU WGST 3XX (3) |
| Coast Mountain College (CMTN) | No credit |
| College of New Caledonia (CNC) | CNC WMST 2XX (3) |
| Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) | KPU ARTS 3XXX (3) |
| LaSalle College Vancouver (LCV) | LCV SOC 3XX (3) |
| Northern Lights College (NLC) | NLC WGST 3XX (3) |
| Okanagan College (OC) | OC GSWS 208 (3) |
| Quest University (QU) | QU TRN 3000 (4) |
| Simon Fraser University (SFU) | SFU GSWS 3XX (3) |
| Thompson Rivers University (TRU) | TRU SOCI 3XXX (3) |
| University Canada West (UCW) | UCW SJCJ 1XX (3) |
| University of British Columbia - Okanagan (UBCO) | UBCO GWST_O 3rd (3) |
| University of British Columbia - Vancouver (UBCV) | UBCV GRSJ_V 2nd (3) |
| University of Northern BC (UNBC) | UNBC WMST 3XX (3) |
| University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) | UFV SOC 3XX (3) |
| Yorkville University (YVU) | YVU GES 3XXX (3) |