About The CourseWelcome to the CoursePlus Web site for COUPLES AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH (380.767.01), a course offered by the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Reviews and discusses readings on couples and reproductive health such as: Definitions of couples and of reproductive health; sociological, anthropological and economic perspectives; fertility decision making; critiques of a couple approach from feminists and from those concerned primarily with less stable sexual partnerships for STD/AIDS prevention, and design of couple studies and service delivery interventions.
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- critique conceptual frameworks
- prepare and give a presentation to the class
- write a paper on a topic of choice (optional)
- discuss the relevant literature in couples and reproductive health
