RS 3733 - Culture, Health, Wellness And Disability

Institution:

Langston University

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Description:

This course is a hands-on approach to issues and related trends, organizations and policies in international rehabilitation for children and adults. Issue areas include human rights; disability classification statistics and other research-related topics; science and technology; rehabilitation in developing countries; women with disabilities; employment and education from perspective of international organizations, such as who and professional and disability movement organizations. Students are encouraged to develop case studies of rehab issues and organization/agency decision making practices/policies outside of the United States. This course is designed to investigate the systemic impact of subgroup membership on families and other relationships and how subgroups in turn affect the larger cultural system. Included in this study are the recursive repercussions of discrimination. The second major component of the course, which is infused throughout, is a study of methods of doing therapy with diverse cultures. This course also looks at medicine from a cross-cultural perspective, focusing on the human, as opposed to biological, side of things. Students learn how to analyze various kinds of medical practice as cultural systems. Particular emphasis is placed on Western bio-medicine; students examine how biomedicine constructs disease, health, body, and mind and how it articulates with other institutions, national and international.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.lunet.edu

Phone Number:

(405) 466-3428

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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