2020-2021 Catalog

SOC-254 SL-U.S. HealthCare Policy

In this course students meet community needs by engaging in service-learning outside the classroom. In this course, students will learn about how the U.S. health care system works. We will study the politics and economics of the health care system and discuss the key health care policy issues of this decade. Using the theoretical perspectives provided by sociology, we will look at issues of power, hierarchy, race, and gender vis-a-vis the health care system. Reading for this course centers on first person narratives by people working in the health care system. This course fulfills the ECR requirement.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

This course fulfills the ECR requirement.

Offered

Occasionally