Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically examine a specific reproductive technology or development through a gender sociological lens.
2. Draw upon the early modern social history of reproduction, including contraception and abortion to address particular issues in social reproduction.
3. Explain in writing the main issues involved in the modern social history of reproduction in Canada.
4. Explain the major developments in reproductive technologies in modern society as sociological events, particularly in terms of gender.
5. Ability to outline in written and oral presentations some of the central challenges and developments related to legislation concerning scientific and technological developments in terms of NRTs and GE.
6. Present arguments about how economic interests drive recent developments in reproduction and replication.
7. Provide a basic analysis of how reproduction, chiefly population control, is related to various environmental concerns.
8. Define and explain the term "foetal personhood" in light of a selection of chiefly North American legal developments in granting fetuses rights to life.
9. Demonstrate in written and oral presentations how the social history of modern reproduction applies to a contemporary social issue or problem.
10. Identify and briefly explain the main so-called new reproductive technologies (NRTs) and human genetic engineering (GE).
11. Identify and critically examine the main arguments in global human rights claims.
12. Identify and outline the informal aspects of social control that play out in the dissemination of NRTs and GE.