LGBTQ+ PEOPLE AND MENTAL HEALTH EQUITY
Theories and research concerning the reasons for sexuality and gender mental health disparities; the significance of contemporary and historical debates over inequality; policies and practices to reduce inequality in health care for LGBTQ+ people.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Learning Outcomes: 1. Critically analyze and evaluate psychological research, policies, and practice in relation sexuality, gender, and inequality in the U.S. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze the role of health care systems in relation to broader LGBTQ+ inequalities and intersecting systems of oppression, with an understanding of history’s impact on present institutional issues Audience: Undergraduate 3. Connect course concepts and ideas to other courses and to current events, recognizing and questioning one’s own assumptions and those of others in the process Audience: Undergraduate 4. Draw from course concepts to critically reflect upon and analyze one’s own personal educational experiences and academic trajectory Audience: Undergraduate 5. Clearly communicate (in both oral and written form) key course concepts of LGBTQ+ mental health equity to lay audiences. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Critically analyze and evaluate psychological research, policies, and practice in relation sexuality, gender, and inequality in the U.S. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze the role of health care systems in relation to broader LGBTQ+ inequalities and intersecting systems of oppression, with an understanding of history’s impact on present institutional issues Audience: Undergraduate 3. Connect course concepts and ideas to other courses and to current events, recognizing and questioning one’s own assumptions and those of others in the process Audience: Undergraduate 4. Draw from course concepts to critically reflect upon and analyze one’s own personal educational experiences and academic trajectory Audience: Undergraduate 5. Clearly communicate (in both oral and written form) key course concepts of LGBTQ+ mental health equity to lay audiences. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027