Course Details
Course offered Winter 2020
HONORS 391 A: Race, Gender, Diaspora in Population Health (A&H / SSc / NSc, DIV)
HONORS 391 A: Race, Gender, Diaspora in Population Health (A&H / SSc / NSc, DIV)
SLN 15385 (View UW registration info »)
Office: H-692 Health Sciences Building, Box 357660
Phone: 206 616-2948
Email: cspigner@uw.edu
Credits: 5
Limit: 35 students
This 300-level 5-credit course explores the health of populations across the globe. Multiculturalism and the Problem Based Learning (PBL) approach allow students to collaborate and take the lead in investigating experience inequalities in health. More than 40 open-ended cases for choice include sex-worker rights, white saviors, Ebola, anti-immigration policies, #MeToo, incarceration, female circumcision, campus rape, racial admixture, and LGBTQ issues. Cohorts of 2-4 students investigate and present on topics of their choice across the 10 week period. Also, a 5-page, typewritten double-spaced essay reflective a critical reading of ONE book (fiction or non-fiction) from a choice of more than 20 titles.