SOC 427: Sociology of Health and Illness

This course provides insight into the social aspects of health and illness and sociological analysis of the healthcare system and its practitioners.

This course provides an overview of social factors and illness, the experience and meaning of illnesses, healthcare systems in the U.S. and around the globe, healthcare settings, technologies, the profession of medicine, health research, and bioethics.

SOC 448: Epidemics and Society

Epidemics throughout history not only provide significant disruption to public health typically in the form of infectious disease but also provide significant disruption to social life across societies.

This course provides an intro to epidemics, epidemiology, health institutions, colonialism and infectious diseases of the Americas, social stratification, health disparities, impact on societies, social change, and the future of public health.