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HLTH 334 Health, Illness, and Society Units: 3.00
Explores the social production and cultural meanings of health and illness with a focus on power and struggle.
Learning Hours: 120 (24 Lecture, 12 Tutorial, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Level 3 or above and registration in a HLTH or KINE Plan and (HLTH 101/3.0 or KNPE 167/3.0 or SOCY 122/6.0).
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Deploy critical concepts and theories to analyze health and illness as collective, social phenomena.
- Identify how systemic forces create and reproduce disparate health experiences and outcomes.
- Evaluate explanations for how health and illness are produced, distributed, and lived.
- Recognize health and illness as sites for the production of cultural meaning.
- Engage politically with health, illness, and the world at large.
- Develop the necessary reading, writing, and presentation skills to produce informed and insightful work.