This course applies academic knowledge of health, health advocacy, and health care systems to experience in community settings through classroom study and the application of social science research methods in student placements in health-related organizations and agencies. Prerequisites: AP/SOSC 3993 3.00 and AP/SOSC 2110 6.00 or AP/SOSC 2150 9.00, and the completion of 84 credits, […]
This research seminar examines theoretical and applied problems in health and society. It introduces students to a variety of research methods and evaluative skills, which they apply in their own analysis of a particular problem. Prerequisites: the completion of at least 84 credits, including AP/SOSC 2110 6.00 or AP/SOSC 2150 9.00, or written permission of […]
This is a course in critical social science methodology and is designed to improve students' abilities to read and evaluate social research. The major research methods will be studied using exemplary texts and hands on assignments. The methods considered and compared are: quasi-experiments, surveys, ethnography, historical method, case studies, text analysis, and action research. The […]
In this course, students gain a critical understanding of the values and the beliefs that inform how health is conceptualized and experienced, and how these concepts are negotiated and change over time. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary and disciplinary fields, such as anthropology, sociology, history, gender and sexuality studies, and critical race and disability […]
Crosslisted: AP/SOSC 1809 This course is a part of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies General Education Program and will fulfill the General Education requirements for Social Science. It is designed to provide interdisciplinary knowledge and breadth in the area of Health & Society. Health, illness and healing are concepts considered so familiar […]