|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
4.00 Credits
Explores the ways in which science and technology have been conceived of in the Social Sciences through the twentieth century. Emphasis on recent literature in Science and Technology Studies (STS), especially writings that concern the relationship of science to power and politics.
-
4.00 Credits
Contemporary issues of race, ethnicity, and the science of disease. "Race" as a biological, social, legal, and culturalconstruct is examined from three interlinked axes: genetic ideologies, disease explanations, and social inequalities. Historical and current analyses of health and inequality. Same as Chicano/Latino Studies 176. ( VII)
-
4.00 Credits
Explores cultural and political implications of the infotech revolution and the ways new media are used around the world, new cultural practices and spaces (e.g., cybercafes), debates surrounding the meanings of these new technologies, and their implications for transforming society.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisites vary. May be repeated for credit as topic varies.
-
4.00 Credits
Cultural differences and similarities in personality and behavior. Child-rearing practices and consequent adult personality characteristics, biocultural aspects of child development and attachment, evolutionary models of culture and behavior, politically linked personality, cognitive anthropology, psychology of narrative forms, comparative national character studies. Prerequisite: Psychology 7A or 9A, B, C, or Psychology and Social Behavior P9 or P11A, B, C, or Anthropology 2A. Same as Psychology 173A.
-
4.00 Credits
Introduction to medical social science perspectives of Latinos/Latinas in a variety of settings. Emphasis placed on understanding the intersection of immigration, mental health, gender, reproduction, and spirituality in analyzing how the experience of health and illness is shaped by these factors. Same as Chicano/Latino Studies 175. ( VII)
-
4.00 Credits
Introduces students to cross-cultural perspectives and critical theories in anthropological studies of medicine. Special attention is given to diverse ways of understanding bodies, illnesses, and therapeutic practices in our changing world. ( VIII)
-
4.00 Credits
Explores America's cultural diversity by examining differing systems of belief and behavior in relation to illness, curing, disease, practitioner behavior, and use of conventional medical services. Groups focused on include Native Americans, African Americans, Latinos, and Asians. Same as Chicano/Latino Studies 172. ( VII)
-
4.00 Credits
Designed to explore and discover the diverse ways humans have devised to heal themselves. The theoretical premise is that social ties are an essential ingredient to successful healing and, indeed, protection against the onset of illness.
-
4.00 Credits
Examines issues concerning cultural conceptions of HIV infection and disease worldwide. Topics include treatment and prevention, identity and behavior, risk, ethnicity, gender, youth, sexuality, activism, drug use, illness, religion, the clinical encounter, national belonging, and the pharmaceutical industry. Prerequisite: satisfactory completion of the lower-division writing requirement. ( VIII)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|