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Apr 03, 2026
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SOC 383 - Sociology of Mental Health and Illness
Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-4; 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.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-4 - Upper Division Social and Behavioral Sciences, Overlay -Diversity
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division GE Area 4 requirements (Area D1-2 requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs), SOC 100.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
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
GE-UD-4. Upper-division Social and Behavioral 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, experiences or views of one or more cultural groups.
- Analyze the overlap or intersection of social identities of oneself and/or other cultural groups (e.g., culture, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, and/or age).
- Examine the impact of their own identity on their experiences with and/or views of other cultural groups.
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