Urban and Community Health

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course will focus on the history, research methods and practices aimed at promoting community and urban health. The course will offer students frameworks for understanding and addressing inequities in community health experienced by racial and ethnic groups in the United States, particularly African-Americans, Latinos and Asian-Pacific Islanders. We will explore the roles of national and local policy, science and research, and cultural representations to explore the causes of structural inequalities and how racial inequalities get ‘into our bodies’ to influence community health.