DISEASES AND SOCIETY

Catalog description

This course is an integrative seminar in ethics and values. Students will develop and implement critical thinking, inquiry, and problem-solving skills. The writing-integrated course will investigate social, cultural, scientific, and humanistic questions as applied to individuals and groups. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the class will facilitate understanding of issues of local and global concern. More specifically, in this course students will examine the diverse ethics and value issues associated with communicable diseases and epidemics such as cholera, HIV-AIDS, the Black Death. Students will explore how diseases affect communities at both a global and local level from multiple perspectives. Students also will investigate the relationship between disease epidemics and public health policies. Pre-requisite: ENGL-102 or ENGL-109 , and a total of 24 credit hours in the General Education Core or instructor permission.