Women’s Health Concentration
The Interdepartmental Graduate Concentration in Women’s Health is co-sponsored by the UIC College of Nursing, the School of Public Health, and the Gender and Women’s Studies program and is housed within the College of Nursing.
This Concentration encompasses the multidisciplinary of Women’s Health and provides training in the foundations of Women’s Health through its structure and content. The Core courses provide a broad overview of the field and issues within Women’s Health, and they address the need for a conceptual and applied background in Women’s Health. The elective allows a student to pursue an issue or area of professional interest in Women’s Health. The multidisciplinary requirement in this Concentration ensures that a student has significant exposure to a paradigm other than the dominant paradigms used within their own school or department.
Contact: Carrie Klima, concentration director, cklima@uic.edu.
Admission and Concentration Requirements
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How to Apply
Students must formally elect the concentration by submitting a plan of work, which is developed with the assistance of a concentration advisor, to the director of the concentration and by informing their home department. The plan of work is a 500-word proposal to the concentration director indicating their interest in the concentration, what they hope to learn from this concentration, the relation of the concentration to their future career goals, and their anticipated course of study in the concentration.
Submit the application to Carrie Klima, concentration director, at cklima@uic.edu.
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Required and Elective Courses
Required Course
- NUSP 500 – Issues for Research and Practice in Women’s Health (3 semester hours)
Elective Courses
Students should enroll in a minimum of 12 hours of course work (including NUSP 500). Of the 12 hours, at least 6 hours must be taken outside of the students’ primary school or college in approved Women’s Health related courses. At least one course must be through the Gender and Women’s Studies Program, and at least one course must be in the health-related sciences, such as through the School of Public Health or the College of Nursing. Up to 3 semester hours may be taken in independent study or thesis research as approved by the student’s concentration advisor after development of and submission of a plan of work to the director of the concentration.
Core Women’s Health Issues Courses
- CHSC 421 – Family Perspectives on Disability (4 semester hours)
- CHSC 441 / GWS 441 – Introduction to Maternal and Child Health
- CHSC 456 / NUEL 455 – Women’s Health: A Primary Health Care Approach (3 semester hours)
- CHSC 543 – Maternal and Child Health Policy and Advocacy (3 semester hours)
- CHSC 595 – Seminar in Community Health Sciences: MCH Leadership Seminar (1 – 3 semester hours)
- NUEL 441 – Wholistic Health: Community Focus (2 semester hours)
- NUEL / GWS 450 – Women and Mental Health Nursing (3 semester hours)
- NUSP 524 – Dimensions of Midwifery and Women’s Health Practice (2 – 5 semester hours)
Core Theory/Methods Courses – select one
- CHSC 434 – Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Public Health
- CHSC 584 – Community Organizing for Health
- GWS 501 – Feminist Theories
- GWS 502 – Feminist Methodologies
- NUEL555 – Theories and Methods in Women’s Health Nursing Research
- CHSC 510 – Women, Children and Family Health: Outcomes and Measurements
Elective Course listing – select one
- CHSC 419 / GWS 419 – Public Health Aspects of Sexuality and Women’s Health
- CHSC 527 – Critical Issues in Long-Term Care Policy
- CHSC528 – Societal Analysis of Aging, Health and Health Care
- CHSC 545 – Reproductive and Perinatal Health
- CHSC 547 – Public Health Approaches to Maternal and Child Nutrition
- CHSC 548 – Readings in Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology
- CHSC 554 – International Women’s Health: Current and Emerging Issues
- CHSC 594 – Advanced Special Topics in Community Health Sciences: Family Planning Policies and Practices
- CHSC 511 – MCH Delivery Systems: Services, Programs, and Policies
- CHSC 512 – Best Practices in Maternal and Child Health Programs
- CHSC 534 – Management and Analysis of Qualitative Data
- EPID 594 – Special Topics: Epidemiology of Sexually Transmitted Infections
- GWS 403 – Culture and Sexuality: Cultural History of Same-Sex Relations
- GWS 412 / ARCH 412 – Women and the Environment
- GWS 424 / CRJ 424 – Gender, Crime, and Justice
- GWS 439 / GER 439 – Gender and Cultural Production
- GWS 469 / ENGL 469 – Women’s Literary Traditions
- GWS 470 / AAST 470 / ENGL 480 – Reading Black Women Writing
- GWS 472 / AH 434 / ENGL 472 – Women and Film
- GWS 484 / HIST 484 – Topics in the History of Women
- GWS 485 / POLS 485 – Gender and Politics
- GWS 490 Advanced Topics in the Study of Sexuality
- GWS 494 Advanced Topics in Gender and Women’s Studies
- GWS 515 / PSCH 515 Psychology of Women and Gender
- GWS 540 / LING 540 – Language and Gender
- GWS 547 / CRJ 547 – Race, Class, and Gender Dimensions of Crime and Justice
- GWS 594 – Special Topics in Gender and Women’s Studies
- GWS 596 – Independent Study
- IPHS 598 – Research in Public Health Sciences – M.S.
- IPHS 599 – Research in Public Health Sciences – Ph.D.
- NUEL565 – Advanced Research in Women’s Health
- NUEL 570 – International Dimensions in Women’s Health
- NUEL575 – Minority Women’s Health Nursing
- NUEL 596 – Independent Study: Graduate
- NURS 598 – Master’s Thesis Research
- NURS 599 – Doctoral Thesis Research
- SOC 451 – Medical Sociology:
- SOC 455 – Topics in Medical Sociology:
- SOC 424 – Sociology of Gender:
- SOC 524 – Sociology of Gender
- SOC 520 – Race, Ethnicity and Gender: