Professor: Gareen Course format: Lecture Number of respondents: 18 Total Enrollment: 21 Class Composition: Froshs: 8 Sophs: 3 Jrs: 9 Srs: 1 Concs: 4 Non-Concs: 9 Don't Know: 5

Instructor Average: 2.06 Course Average: 1.97

Are you a woman? Do you like women? Do you want to know more about women? If yes to any of these, then maybe you want to check out “Health and Human Reproduction: Anthropological Perspectives,” a survey course that focuses on women’s health issues in general and how they apply to reproduction specifically. Topics like nutrition, health programs, AIDS, STD’s, and pregnancy are discussed. These issues are explored on both the national and international level. There are no perquisites to this course.

The professor doesn’t teach much in this course. A cadre of professionals with knowledge specialization was brought in to lecture on the course’s diverse range of women’s issues. These guest lecturers effectively utilized helpful slides and Power Point. Students really like how the Power Point presentations were also posted on the web. For her part, instructor was thought to be approachable during office hours and enthusiastic.

The AIDS and STD readings were though to be the most useful and interesting, but on the whole, the readings were voluminous, and a lot of people didn’t do them. Many felt the classnotes suffice. Most people reported spending two to three hours a week on work outside of the class, which was less than their initial expectation. There was a midterm, a final, and one ten-page term paper.

The course was generally acknowledged to be particularly excellent for women, but most survey respondents felt there were better BC courses out there. Word to the wise, “If it is still offered at 9:00am next year, don’t sleep through the midterm!!”

View BC/0034 in the Brown Online Course Announcement.