SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND MEDICINE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Summer 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand how concepts such as “disease” and “health” are socially constructed. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify and describe how social contexts (e.g. race and gender) shape health outcomes and structure disparities. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify the social and cultural shifts in medicine and healthcare. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Critically analyze their own experiences with health, illness, and medicine using course material. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate understanding and engagement with course material and produce thoughtful and compelling arguments in assigned work. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand how concepts such as “disease” and “health” are socially constructed. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify and describe how social contexts (e.g. race and gender) shape health outcomes and structure disparities. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify the social and cultural shifts in medicine and healthcare. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Critically analyze their own experiences with health, illness, and medicine using course material. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate understanding and engagement with course material and produce thoughtful and compelling arguments in assigned work. Audience: Undergraduate