[SOSC1010 : Equity & Anti-Oppression]

Term taken: summer 2022

Instructor: Sharon DeJoy, Tamara Taitt

Course description: 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 on 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: 1) Social identities, racism, and privilege; 2) Health disparities, inequities, and inequalities; and 3) Cultural humility and equity care models. Students will examine these issues through a combination of interactive discussion sessions, analytical exercises, case studies, reflexive essays, research papers, critical interactive engagement with peers via Online Discussions (OD), and a final advocacy paper. In doing so, 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 equity in perinatal health for all childbearing persons.

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