Minor Requirements

Drawing on feminist, queer, social, and critical race theory, this course examines the status of the body in both historical and contemporary debates about identity, representation, and politics. We tend to take the body for granted as the ground of experience and knowledge, but this course challenges that common sense, asking how the body is produced, managed, and deployed in various ways to discipline and manage populations. We will also investigate the political possibilities of body work to resist and reshape these same disciplinary practices, paying particular attention to “queer” forms of embodiment. Recommended Preparation: CSST 210, GWST 100, or permission of instructor.

Grading: Graded
Course ID: 101763
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Arts and Humanities (GEP), Culture (GEP)

This course introduces students to strategies for differentiating instruction within general education classrooms. The course examines the legal, philosophical and programmatic underpinnings of instructional inclusion, especially in the areas of reading, writing and math. The course emphasizes approaches for adapting the curriculum to meet the needs of socio-culturally, linguistically, cognitively (e.g., dyslexic, dyscalculic) and behaviorally diverse student populations, including students identified traditionally as having special needs (e.g., gifted and talented, physically challenged). A weekly field experience is required.

Grading: Graded/Audit
Course ID: 53488
Consent: Department Consent Required
Components: Lecture

This class uses the figure of the cyborg to interrogate the ways in which cultured identity is constructed through media the role of technology in defining humanness in an increasingly digital world. It focuses on the processes of globalization and the connections between local and global contexts of struggle inform lived experiences of identity, including race, gender, sexuality, class and ability. Recommended Preparation: GLBL 100 or MLL 230.

Grading: Graded
Course ID: 102804
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Also Listed As: MLL 410

This course provides a survey of human factors and human computer interaction relevant to the design and use of information systems. It describes the contributions of information systems, computer science, psychology, sociology and engineering to human-computer interaction. Emphasis is placed on human factors theories, human information processing concepts, interaction design approaches and usability evaluation methods. Application areas and current research are also reviewed.

Grading: Graded
Course ID: 51335
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Prerequisite: IS 202, IS 300, or IS 300H with a grade of ‘C’ or better.

The historic and contemporary role that the black aged have played in black communities. Attention is given to special problems that afflict the black aged, such as higher frequency of illnesses, earlier deaths, social isolation. Methods for working out solutions to problems of the black aged. Recommended Preparation: Junior/Senior status or permission of the instructor.

Grading: Graded/Satisfactory Unsatisfactory/Audit
Course ID: 52099
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture

Based in the life-course perspective, this course blends academic analysis of human aging in social context with more experiential learning, including exposure to literature on older adults, awareness exercises about aging in the news and talking with older adults in and out of class to debunk common myths and stereotypes regarding aging and older adults. Academic content is broadly social, in terms of understanding family and community contexts of aging, the individual experience of aging including productivity, spirituality and typical engagement, normal changes and diseases common in physical and psychological health, and a focus on how society views aging. Finally, students will be encouraged to identify themselves as aging individuals, on a trajectory toward later life.

Grading: Graded/Satisfactory Unsatisfactory
Course ID: 52105
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Course Equivalents: AGNG 200Y
Attributes: Social Sciences (GEP), Writing Intensive (WI), Social Sciences (GFR)
Prerequisite: ENGL 100 with a grade of ‘C’ or better.

Providing services to older people involves the diversity of the clients and, increasingly frequently, the diversity of the service provision staff. Including aspects of cultural diversity, socioeconomic diversity, gender diversity and age diversity, this course provides students with information regarding aspects of diversity that may influence the expectations and satisfaction of both groups in the service delivery system. Examples include variations in family systems, expectations about later life and illness, issues related to eligibility for services, and problems of communication and comfort in cross-age, intercultural or interclass interactions.

Grading: Graded
Course ID: 57345
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Prerequisite: AGNG 200 with a grade of ‘C’ or better.

History of the development of medicine and medical theory in the ancient Mediterranean basin, focusing on the period spanning the 5th century BCE to 2nd century CE (Hippocratic Corpus to Galen). Course material covers how and why theories about the human body arose and vied for dominance; students will explore the ancient roots of professionalism, pharmacy, surgery, gynecology, ethics, public health, hygiene, and medical law. Recommended Preparation: ANCS 201 or ANCS 202.

Grading: Graded/Audit
Course ID: 102338
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Arts and Humanities (GEP), Culture (GEP)

This course explores human health and illness in cultural and social contexts. This course will introduce a range of concerns and approaches within medical anthropology, introducing key concepts and methods. It will examine how people in different places and positions experience illness, suffering, healing, and their bodies more generally and the roles played by cultural, social, political, economic, legal, and technological factors. This course will also explore how research within this field is conducted, analyzed, written about, and translated into policy.

Grading: Graded/Satisfactory Unsatisfactory/Audit
Course ID: 52236
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Writing Intensive (WI), Social Sciences (GFR)
Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and (ANTH 211 or SOCY 101) with a grade of ‘C’ or better.

This course provides an introduction to disability studies, focusing specifically on the role of the body in writing and communication practices. In addition to engaging with critical readings about bodies-with an emphasis on how disability intersects with race, class, gender, and sexuality-students will examine representations of the body in contemporary media to enrich their understanding of what kinds of bodies are included and excluded in scholarly and popular discourse.

Grading: Graded
Course ID: 102482
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture

This course serves to introduce central concepts and key issues in public health ethics. Students will learn various proposed frameworks for analyzing ethical issues in public health, and how public health ethics differs from traditional medical ethics. Students will use a case-based approach to analyze ethical issues in public health, and practice applying the frameworks to real and fictitious cases through class discussions and written assignments.

Grading: Graded
Course ID: 102409
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Prerequisite: PBHL 100 with a grade of ‘C’ or better.

Skills related to advocacy for health justice can be applied in a variety of disciplines. This course covers contextual theories, U.S. social movement insights, and legal system drawbacks that impede health justice. Students will build an understanding of government limitations in public health, detrimental legal doctrines, and the absence of human rights focus. They will also discuss inequalities and health disparities among marginalized groups. The course analyzes a holistic health justice agenda and ongoing initiatives. Students will apply their knowledge to advocate for equitable health policies, synthesizing their understanding of health justice. Recommended Preparation: PBHL 354.

Grading: Graded/Satisfactory Unsatisfactory/Audit
Course ID: 103145
Components: Lecture
Prerequisite: PBHL 100 with a grade of ‘C’ or better.

A survey of the ethical constraints on the practice of medicine, biomedical research using human and nonhuman animals, and the delivery of health care. Specific topics will include doctor-patient confidentiality; autonomy, competence, and medical decision-making; ethical issues at the beginning and end of human life; and controversial biomedical technologies such as cloning and stem cell research. Recommended Preparation: PHIL 150, PHIL 152, PBHL 350.

Grading: Graded/Satisfactory Unsatisfactory/Audit
Course ID: 50142
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Course Equivalents: PHIL 358H
Attributes: Arts and Humanities (GEP)
Also Listed As: PBHL 358
Prerequisite: One PHIL course with a grade of ‘C’ or better.

This course explores fundamental questions about the nature of medical care and medical knowledge. It focuses on issues concerning the aims of medicine, our concepts and theories of health and disease, medical evidence and diagnosis, the patient-physician relationship, and a variety of ethical, political, and values questions about medical research and practice. These explorations touch on and draw from the tools of metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, ethics, and public policy.

Grading: Graded/Satisfactory Unsatisfactory/Audit
Course ID: 102961
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Arts and Humanities (GEP)
Also Listed As: PBHL 375
Prerequisite: One PHIL course with a grade of ‘C’ or better.

 An examination of biology from a philosophical point of view. Some of the philosophical problems considered are the tautological character of the principle of natural selection, genic vs. group selection, the definition of fitness, the nature of biological species, the statistical character of evolutionary theory, and the reduction of biological laws to laws in physics and chemistry.

Grading: Graded/Satisfactory Unsatisfactory/Audit
Course ID: 56056
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Arts and Humanities (GEP)
Prerequisite: One PHIL course with a grade of ‘C’ or better.

This course will examine development and behavior of various types of children with exceptionalities. Consideration is given to children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, learning disabilities, attention deficit/hyperactive disorders, emotional and behavioral disorders, communication, language, and speech disorders, children who have special gifts and talents, are deaf or hard of hearing, are visually impaired, and children with physical disabilities, health impairments, and multiple disabilities.

Grading: Graded/Satisfactory Unsatisfactory
Course ID: 56480
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Prerequisite: PSYC 100 and (PSYC 200 or PSYC 306) with a grade of ‘C’ or better.

An analysis of deviant activities, including crime, sexual deviation and mental illness. Sociological explanations of these phenomena and the strengths and weaknesses of these explanations. Examinations of the legal system and other social control mechanisms. Recommended Preparation: SOCY 101, ANTH 211, or permission of the instructor.

Grading: Graded/Satisfactory Unsatisfactory/Audit
Course ID: 56779
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture

This course explores how health, illness, and the field of medicine are shaped by social and cultural forces. It examines the changing role of physicians and other providers; medicine as a social institution; the nature of healthcare organizations; and the experience of health and illness. Special attention is given to the doctor-patient relationship, and factors that shape individuals’ interactions with their health providers, as well as analyzing the role of persistent sociocultural inequalities across health and health care. Recommended Preparation: SOCY 101 or ANTH 211.

Grading: Graded/Audit
Course ID: 56787
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture

Conceptualization and measurement of disability, determinants and consequences of disabling chronic conditions, services for the disabled, and program planning and evaluation in disability and rehabilitation. The development of Social Security policy and rehabilitation will be discussed in terms of interdisciplinary approaches.

Grading: Graded/Satisfactory Unsatisfactory/Audit
Course ID: 56824
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Prerequisite: Nine credits of SOCY courses with a grade of ‘C’ or better. Completion of 60 credits.