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  • HSOC 312: Weapons of Mass Destruction

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Lindee. The course explores the historical development of traditional weapons of mass destcruction such as chemical, nuclear and biological agents, in addition to newer and seemingly non-traditional weapons such as land mines and civilian aircraft that can also be employed to cause large numbers of injuries and deaths among civilian and military populations. Through case studies in technology and public health, students will evaluate the medical, scientific, environmental, and cultural ramifications of these weapons and their effect on human heal and society by analyzing the rise of the military-industrial-academic-complex in twentieth century America.
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  • HSOC 321: Health in Urban Communities

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course will introduce students to anthropological approaches to health and to theories of participatory action research. This combined theoretical perspective will then be put into practice using West Philadelphia community schools as a case study. Students will become involved in design and implementation of health-related projects at an urban elementary or middle school. As one of the course requirements, students will be expected to produce a detailed research proposal for future implementation.
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  • HSOC 331: Genes,Medicine and Politics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Cowan. This course explores how human heredity has been scientifically constructed as a political resource. Topics include the rise of eugenics movements around the world, the role of genetics in scientific racism, the social meaning of genetic disease, and the development of the human genome project.
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  • HSOC 335: Healthy Schools

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Summers. This academically based community service research seminar will develop a pilot program to test the efficacy of using service-learning teams of undergraduates and graduate students to facilitate the development of School Health Councils (SHCs) and the Center for Disease Control's School Health Index (SHI) school self-assessment and planning tool in two elementary schools in West Philadelphia. This process is intended to result in a realistic and meaningful school health implimentation plan and an ongoing action project to put this plan into practice. Penn students will involve member sof the school administration, teachers, staff, parents and ocmmunity member sin the SHC and SHI process iwth a special focus on encouraging participation from the schools' students. In this model for the use of Penn service- learning teams is successful, it will form the basis of on ongoing partnership with the School District's Office of health, Safety & Physical Education to expand such efforts to more schools.
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  • HSOC 338: "Sweet Little Old Ladies and Sandwiched Daughters":Social Images and Issues in our Aging Society

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Kagan. Third or fourth year undergraduate students in any major BFS, JWS, and NUHP students. This course is an intensive and focused introduction to social gerontology as a trans-disciplinary lens through which to examine aspects of social structure, actions, and consequences in an aging society. A variety of sources are employed to introduce students from any field focused on human behavior and interaction to classical notions of social gerontology and current scholarly inquiry in gerontology. Field work in the tradition of thickdescription creates a mechanism to engage students in newly gerontological understandings of their life worlds and daily interactions. Weekly field work, observing aspects of age and representations of aging and being old in every day experiences forms, is juxtaposed against close critical readings of classical works in social gerontology and current research literature as well as viewings of film and readings of popular literature as the basis for student analysis. Student participation in the seminar demands careful scrutiny and critical synthesis of disparate intellectual, cultural, and social perspectives using readings and field work and creation of oral and written arguments that extend understandings of the issues at hand in new and substantive ways. Emphasis is placed on analysis of field work and literature through a series of media reports and a final term paper.
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  • HSOC 341: Race,Gender,Class and the History of American Health Care

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Fairman. For Benjamin Franklin Scholars & Nursing Honors Students. This multidisciplinary course surveys the history of American health care through the multiple perspectives of race, gender, and class, and grounds th discussions in contemporary health issues. It emphasizes the links between the past and present, using not only primary documents but materials from disciplines such as literature, art, sociology, and feminist studies that relate both closely and tangentially to the health professions and health ca issues. Discussions will surround gender, class-based, ethnic, and racial ideas about the construction of disease, health and illness; the development of health care institutions; the interplay between religion and science; the experiences of patients and providers; and the response to disasters and epidemics.
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  • HSOC 359: Nutritional Anthropology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. Human nutrition and nutritional status within context of anthropology, health, and disease. Particular emphasis on nutritional problems and the development of strategies to describe, analyze, and solve them. Students will participate in the Urban Nutrition Initiative, an academically based community service project in local area schools.
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  • HSOC 387: Health Environments in Asia

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Ludden. A comparative social history seeking to explain today's nutritional deficits among third world peoples. Based on an eco-system approach, it considers contending theories, traces the rise of the world food system, and compares detailed case studies covering the period 1800-1980.
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  • HSOC 404: Urban Environments:Speaking About Lead in West Philadelphia

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Pepino. ABCS Course. Local middle school visits required. A study of selected aspects of urban environments, with an emphasis on West Philadelphia. Students will engage middle school children in exercises of applied environmental research.
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  • HSOC 405: Urban Environment II

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Pepino. Prerequisite(s): HSOC 404 or permission of instructor. ABCS Course. Local middle school visits required. A detailed analysis of urban environmental issues.
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