AFRCNA 0400 - COVID-19, RACISM AND PUBLIC HEALTH

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
This 1- credit course, offered through the Global Studies Center and co-sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies, offers an opportunity for students to learn about the compounding effects of multiple forms of inequality or disadvantage and how they impact COVID-19 exposure, cases, and deaths. The obstacles that inequalities create may not be easily discernible or understood by looking at or thinking about racism, health and now the impact of COVID-19, among African Americans, in a conventional way. You cannot change outcomes without understanding the causes or how they come about. The pandemic has exposed systemic racial inequalities in the U.S. health delivery system. Why are African American and other minority communities being hit hard by COVID-19? In this class, we will read pertinent literature and discuss racially sensitive issues including what it means to be a minority in the U.S. during a pandemic. We will focus on pre-existing conditions, essential workers, structural inequities, and how social determinants of health are influenced by implicit bias and racial discrimination.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit

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