Society & Mental Health

Catalog description

This course introduces students to an interdisciplinary, socio-cultural, and arts-based examination of mental health issues, including diagnosis, treatment, and service use from the perspectives of socially marginalized groups in the U.S. An important part of this course involves a community-engaged learning component met through work for or on behalf of the community or collaboration with researchers using community-based participatory research approaches to mental and emotional health. prereq: junior or senior standing