May 02, 2024  
2020-2021 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


 

Sociology

  
  • SOC 462 - Sociology of Health and Medicine


    (3 units)

    Prerequisite: GE Foundation requirements.
    Epidemiological and sociological approaches to health and illness; patterns of physical and mental disease; patient and physician perspectives; causes of stress and coping; health care delivery and utilization; interaction of physician, nurse, therapist, health administrator, social worker, patient, and family.

    Both grading options.
  
  • SOC 562 - Global Health


    (3 units)

    Prerequisites: SOC 462  or equivalent or consent of instructor
    Examines cultural and social causes of illness and access to and practice of healthcare. Major themes include stress and coping, social epidemiology, political and cultural considerations affecting illness, sociological perspectives on the life course, and activism for improved community health.

    Letter grade only (A-F).