SOC 0473 - SOCIOLOGY OF GLOBALIZATION AND HEALTH

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to help students understand how economic and political globalization impacts health outcomes in the United States and around the world. In this course we will explore how a variety of global factors affect people’s health and their access to health care. For instance, expanded international travel and migration contributes to the spread of infectious diseases and shapes a growing international labor market in health care. International economic policies such as patent law and trade agreements affect access to and delivery of health services and treatments and contribute to national, racial, and gendered inequities in health care. Climate change increases the prevalence of certain diseases and impacts availability of food and water. In addition, global economic forces shape the possibilities for national and local governments to provide for their citizens’ basic human needs such as safe drinking water, nutrition, and a healthy environment. Students will gain enough familiarity with global processes to appreciate the multiple influences on human health that are relevant to careers in a variety of fields related to the physical and social sciences and the humanities. This course fulfills social sciences and foreign culture/international global general education requirements.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Global Issues General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Social Science General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.

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