Course Details
Course offered Winter 2021
HONORS 391 A: Race, Gender, Diaspora & Population Health (A&H / SSc / NSc, DIV, W)
HONORS 391 A: Race, Gender, Diaspora & Population Health (A&H / SSc / NSc, DIV, W)
SLN 15432 (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
Course Description: This 300-level 5-credit course explores the health of populations across the planet. Multiculturalism and the Problem Based Learning (PBL) allow students to investigate inequalities in health. More than 35 open-ended topics or cases include sex-worker rights, white saviors, Ebola, anti-immigration policies, #MeToo, incarceration, female circumcision, racial admixture, and LGBTQ issues. Randomly selected cohorts of 3-4 students investigate and present on a randomly selected cases / topics. Also, a 5-7 page, typewritten double-spaced essay of a critically read book, essay of short story from a reading list more than 40 titles.
Objectives:
1. Understand the intersectionality of race and gender in population health.
2. Assess knowledge about diasporic populations.
3. Discern social, physical and emotional health in popular literature.