W46 Women and Health Communication. This course focuses on communication experienced by women when they seek healthcare. Whether the issue is pregnancy and birth, reproductive healthcare or routine healthcare, women's interactions with medical professionals often are unsatisfying at least and harmful at worst. It helps students to see the issues and become better communicators in these stressful situations. Health professionals such as nurses, midwives, doctors, and therapists are invited as expert resource persons.
Students write a short response paper and take a final comprehensive exam.
This course serves as an elective credit for the gender studies minor. Ms. H. Sterk. Exploring Parent-Child Conversations during Shared Book Reading. When parents read to their young children, they help them develop language and literacy skills critical for later academic success. Parent-child conversations during this preschool activity teach children important abstract language skills through discussions about characters' motives, explanations of the story's events, or predictions about what could happen next in the story.