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Apr 23, 2024
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T3 4810 - Pathologies of Power
The overall objective of this course is to address how membership in specific social identity groups including ones that are based on the social categories of race, gender, sexuality, religiosity, socioeconomic status as well as others is related to physical and mental health. This course will provide an interdisciplinary framework for understanding the relationship between health and social identity group memberships. The disparities that exist in health status for many groups will be explored as well as how factors such as microaggressions, prejudice, stigmatization, poor access to and barriers to care as well as policies contribute to these disparities. Concurrently resiliency factors and intervention strategies to reduce such disparities will be reviewed.
Requisites: PSY 2710 and (PSY 1110 or PSY 2110 or MATH 2500 or QBA 2010 or ECON 3810 or COMS 3520) and Sr only
Credit Hours: 3
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to identify microaggressions in our society and discuss how they relate to health disparities.
- Students will demonstrate an appreciation for diversity in their own lives.
- Students will demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively on a project that addresses a health disparity.
- Students will develop a capacity to synthesize information taken from various health disciplines to develop an understanding of the relationship between health and membership in specific identity groups.
- Students will have the ability to demonstrate increasingly complex intellectual skills with respect to an understanding of health disparities.
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