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Aug 24, 2024
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SOC 383 - Sociology of Mental Health and Illness Units: 4; Breadth Area: GE-UD-D; Diversity The sociological study of mental health, mental illness and mental health care. Topics may include social construction; life course perspective; mental health by race, class, and gender; the stress process model; stigma and labeling; and the criminal justice system.
Strongly Recommended Preparation: SOC 100 Prerequisites: Completion of GE A1, A2, A3, and B4, all with C- (CR) or better. Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous. Grading: A-F grading only. Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-D - Upper Division Social Sciences, Overlay - Diversity Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Explain how sociology contributes to understandings of mental health and illness
- Critically examine how our conceptions of mental health and illness are shaped by power, history, culture, and institutions
- Learn how various social factors contribute to the rates, experience, and treatment of mental illness. Social factors might include race, gender, class, sexuality, disability, immigration, age and their intersections.
- Communicate the above outcomes in oral and written forms
- Apply insights and concepts from course materials to better understand personal experiences and current events related to mental health and illness
UD-D. Upper-division Social Sciences Learning Outcomes
- Analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
- Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
- Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.
Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
- Describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
- Identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
- Analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
- Recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.
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