As I announced in class this past Thursday, I would really like to get your input on blogging in the classroom this semester. How did you like blogging about the course topics, discussions, readings over the semester? Did your opinion about the blogs change from the beginning to the end of the semester? What did you get out of blogging exercise?

I am going to write a paper on the topic of blogging in the public health (reproductive health) classroom, so the more input you provide on what you thought about the process, the richer the paper will be and the more you can inform what I write!

Also, I encourage you to also respond to the readings for this week on Reproductive Justice and Reproductive Rights (you are to do the readings which are due for the last week of class, Week 15 on your syllabus), which encapsulate much of what we have been talking about over the course of the semester.

I really enjoyed working with you all this semester, this is my favorite class that I’ve taught yet!

Have a nice winter break!

Please post your blog comments to week 14’s readings on HIV/AIDS, STIs, and HPV here!

Please post your blog comments to week 13’s (class on Thursday, November 29th) readings on the Women’s Health Movement and Natural Family Planning (NFP) here!

Have a nice Thanksgiving Break!

Please post your blog comments to the readings for week 10 on breastfeeding here.

This week’s reading topic is on PMS, menstruation and menopause. Please post your comments here!

Please post your blog comments to the readings for week 8 on abortion here.

Please post your blog comments to the readings here.

I seem to be confused on the weeks (if you were counting), this is week 7, not week 6.

Oops, sorry this is so late in being posted. I will accept your blog comments posted here until this Sunday, since I posted this so late.

In this week’s class we will focus on a critique of birth control as population control. We will also have a guest speaker, Dr. Betsy Hartmann, from the Population and Development program at Hampshire College to talk about population control. Please make sure to respond to the readings for this week! Several of you have not yet posted a blog or given me your blog name–remember that your blog entries count for 30% of your final grade!!

Also, the “From Explosion to Implosion” reading did not download properly onto the course website. Please disregard this reading for next week.

This week’s readings begin our discussion of contraception. Please post your comments to the reading(s) here. Remember that I am interested in learning how you relate what you are reading about to experiences you have had, to other ways you have learned about contraception in the past, and then to your reactions to the readings. You do not need to respond to all of the readings–I am more interested in your conducting an in-depth analysis or writing an elaborate commentary on something that struck you in the reading, than in your being able to review all of the themes from the readings.