Human Development in a Global Context

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Introduces contemporary issues of injustice regarding how individuals’ experiences of being oppressed affect their healthy human development from a global perspective. By focusing on age, gender, socioeconomic status, and the intersectionality of these social categories, students examine how individuals’ social advantages or disadvantages cumulatively increase over the lifespan and discuss possible action plans as individuals to alleviate health disparities in a global community. May not be taken for credit by students who received credit for: HD 370-8. Prerequisite(s): HD 101 . Satisfies Diversity & Equity area: DEg