Bachelor of Social Science
20f, USA
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English
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Sep 2025
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Introduction
This course provides tools and tips to ensure success throughout a student's midwifery education. It is a required course if the student is taking a timeout and does not count toward credits required for degree completion.The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the foundational concepts of equity, anti-oppression, and cultural humility in midwifery care, and to engage critical learning of how difference, power, discrimination, and privilege intersect to produce documented disparities in perinatal health outcomes and practices in the United States. Students will have the opportunity to study and explore three broad areas of cultural humility, equity and (anti)oppression practices, and their impact on maternity care through historical and current sociopolitical frameworks:Social identities, racism, and privilege; Health disparities, inequities, and inequalities; and Cultural humility and equity care models. Collectively, students will acquire foundational skills necessary for the provision of culturally safe care and the actualization of anti-oppression midwifery professional practices in commitment to access and equity in perinatal health for all childbearing persons. Analyze and differentiate between health inequities, equalities and disparities.
Theorize about difference, power, discrimination and privilege. Describe the health and social effects of difference/discrimination and privilege/power. Analyze social determinants of health during childbearing and across the life course. Analyze microaggressions and how they unfold to impact health and social well-being. Summarize historical and current sociocultural practices of institutional racism. Theorize about systems of oppression, intersectionality and structural violence. Critically evaluate the influence of social identities (including race/ethnicity, maternal age, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, gender) on health and social outcomes, healthcare practices, and embodied experiences.Analyze and differentiate between cultural humility and cultural competency frameworks. Critically evaluate personal implicit biases and privileges associated with certain social identities, especially white privilege. Summarize anti-oppression and anti-racism efforts within midwifery and perinatal health.
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