Minor Overview

About this minor

Sex and gender identity, including social and cultural factors, play critical roles in health, wellness, and disease progression. This minor explores determinants of women's health across the lifespan: from conception, through childhood, into the reproductive years and beyond. A transdisciplinary approach fosters collaborative and creative thinking to address the global challenge of gendered health outcomes and pursue just and equitable societies.

In the three core units, Level 1 students learn the basic skills of health promotion and factors informing health decision making. Level 2 students learn the importance of evidence-based practice in women's health. Level 3 students apply their skills to research in women's health.

Students have a choice of a fourth unit, depending on their interests: SWSP1004 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History, Policy, and Culture; ANHB2216 Human Reproductive Biology; GEND2903 Sex, Gender, Science and Technology.

Outcomes
Students are able to (1) explain how sex and gender relate to key determinants of women's health across the lifespan; (2) describe how key stakeholders in women's health interact during decision making processes for both individual and community health needs; (3) identify, in a global and cultural context, sex and gender differentials in morbidity, mortality and health outcomes for the female fetus, girl child, female adolescent, reproductive woman, adult and older woman; (4) identify and discuss the impact of local, national, and global policies in women's health; (5) examine indicative case studies relating to local, national (including Indigenous), and global women's health issues; (6) analyse the scientific understanding of selected major diseases and health problems confronting women throughout their lifespan; (7) demonstrate a broad understanding of the role of women's health research in advancing knowledge and policy development; and (8) present an argument for women's health research using evidence from the research literature.

Units

Key to availability of units:
S1
Semester 1
S2
Semester 2

IMED1108 has no prerequisites. IMED2208 has successful completion of 24 points of prior study as a prerequisite. IMED3301 has successful completion of IMED2208 and successful completion of 48 points as prerequisites.

Take the following unit:

Availability Unit code Unit name Unit requirements
S2 IMED1108 Issues in Women's Health Across the Lifespan None
Take the following unit:

Availability Unit code Unit name Unit requirements
S1 IMED2208 Issues in Women's Reproductive Health
Prerequisites
Successful completion of
24 points
Take the following unit:

Availability Unit code Unit name Unit requirements
S2 IMED3301 Issues in Women's Health Research
Prerequisites
Successful completion of
IMED2208 Issues in Women's Reproductive Health
and Successful completion of
48 points
Take unit(s) to the value of 6 points:

Availability Unit code Unit name Unit requirements
S2 ANHB2216 Human Reproductive Biology
Prerequisites
Successful completion of
IMED1001 Form and Function
and IMED1002 The Facts of Life
or Successful completion of any one Unit(s)
ANHB1101 Human Biology I: Becoming Human
or ANHX1101 Human Biology 1 (Becoming Human)
or ANHB1102 Human Biology II: Being Human
or ANHX1102 Human Biology 2 (Being Human)
or BIOL1130 Frontiers in Biology
or BIOL1131 Plant and Animal Biology
or SCIE1106 Molecular Biology of the Cell
or SCIX1106 Molecular Biology of the Cell
or IMED1108 Issues in Women's Health Across the Lifespan
S1 GEND2903 Sex, Gender, Technology and Science
Prerequisites
Successful completion of
36 points
S1 SWSP1004 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History, Policy, and Culture None