Course Title:
Race, Ethnicity, and Health in the United States
Course Description:
Explores the role of economic, social, and individual factors in explaining racial and ethnic health disparities, and examines intervention approaches to eliminate them. Topics include genetic and social constructions of race and ethnicity, measuring race and ethnicity, and differences in prevalence and patterns of disease across groups; cultural and structural factors that affect health-care delivery, such as discrimination, racism, and health status; and health-care delivery and public health approaches to prevention and improving health-care delivery. Class activities include fieldwork.
Fall Offering:
Every
Lab/Coreq 1:
Spring Offering:
None
Lab/Coreq 2:
Summer Offering:
None
Lab/Coreq Remarks:
Summer 1 Offering:
None
Prerequisite 1:
Summer 2 Offering:
None
Prerequisite 2:
Cross-Listed Course 1:
BHS G120
Prerequisite 3:
Cross-Listed Course 2:
Prerequisite 4:
Cross-Listed Course 3:
Prerequisite 5:
Cross-Listed Course 4:
Prerequisite Remarks:
Junior or senior standing.
Cross-Listed Course 5:
Repeatable:
N
Additional Information:
Approved course: NU Core-Comparative Study of Cultures
