10 courses with the subject HSOC, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
HSOC 100Introduction to Health Studies
In this course we study health and healing from interdisciplinary perspectives. Topics we will study include: suffering and the meaning of health, mental health and addiction, disability studies, infectious and chronic diseases, and food, nutrition, and obesity studies. Guided by the Ursinus Core first question “What should matter to me?” and the third question “How can we understand the world?”, we will read texts and debate ideas raised by diverse disciplines about wh HSOC/HIST-104 Pathogens, Plagues, & Pandemics: Histories of Disease, Medicine, and Public Health How has disease shaped the world we live in? Is sickness a great leveler that renders us all vulnerable, or does it exacerbate social inequities by harming some people more than others? How have our understandings of illness, immunity, medicine, and healthcare changed over time? What are the historical connections between medicine and power, both political and economic? Seeking answers to these questions, this course explores the history of disease, medicine, and global
An occasional course focusing on a special topic in health and society. Prerequisite: HSOC-100, or permission of the instructor. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. HSOC/ANTH-283. Contemporary Issues in Public Health in the Yucatán Students will explore matters related to health and healing in Mexico with a particular focus on the Yucatán Peninsula and Maya peoples. This faculty-led program will enable students to receive credit for a four-credit course, as well as complete their XLP. The course offers an examination of Mexico’s medical system, structural factors that impact wellbeing in the region, and healers and healing approaches from biomedicine and indigenous traditions. Drawing on multiple
Individual study of one or more selected topics in the relevant literature. May include preparation of a bibliography for a proposal for subsequent research. Requires consent of a member of the department who will serve as adviser. This course is graded S/U. One semester hour.
Individual study of one or more selected topics in the relevant literature. May include preparation of a bibliography for a proposal for subsequent research. Requires consent of a member of the department who will serve as adviser. This course is graded S/U. Two semester hours. HSOC/HIST-304. Mosquitoes, Miasmas & Madness: Disease, Race, and Empire in the Tropical World This course explores the history of disease and medicine in the colonial world, particularly in the tropical zones of the Caribbean, Africa, and Southern Asia. We will analyze the colonial construction of “the tropics” as a place of dangerous illnesses; trace the development of hypotheses about racial or biological immunity to diseases endemic in hot, humid climates; and explore the relationship between health, race, and labor under colonialism in the tropics. We will a
An occasional course focusing on a special topic in health and society. Prerequisite: HSOC-100, or permission of the instructor. Three hours per week. Four semester hours.
An academic/work experience under the supervision of an internship adviser and an on-site supervisor. Students must document their experience according to the requirements delineated in the College catalogue section on Internships. Contact any member of the Department for further information. Open to juniors and seniors. The term during which the internship work is performed will be noted by one of the following letters, to be added immediately after the internship cour
An academic/work experience under the supervision of an internship adviser and an on-site supervisor. Students must document their experience according to the requirements delineated in the College catalogue section on Internships. Contact any member of the Department for further information. Open to juniors and seniors. The term during which the internship work is performed will be noted by one of the following letters, to be added immediately after the internship cour
An opportunity to engage in independent empirical research on a topic of your choice. Before the course begins, the student’s faculty supervisor must approve the student’s research proposal. A final progress report is required. Prerequisite: appropriate research methods course from the following list (one course from the following list): ANSO-200; HEP-261W; HIST-200W; PHIL-246; POL-300; PSYC-200Q; STAT-243W. Four semester hours. (XLP.)
Open only to candidates for Honors in Health and Society: Research methods course (one course from the following list): ANSO-200; HEP-261W; HIST-200W; PHIL-246; POL-300; PSYC-200Q; STAT-243W. Four semester hours. (XLP.)
