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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
 
  Apr 30, 2024
 
2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

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SOC 1467 - TOPICS MENTAL HEALTH AND ILLNESS


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course challenges some basic assumptions, practices and categories used in the mental health field and widely accepted in contemporary American culture. It introduces the student to the constructionist perspective on deviance and explores its implications for understanding and studying mental health/illness. It also focuses on the relationships between the professional domains of psychotherapy, medicine, religion and the law.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis


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