Director's Seminar: Health and Healing.

Catalog description

This course is designed to introduce students to the Health Studies major and to the numerous ways the University of the Pacific can help support student success. The seminar begins by attempting to define health and Health Studies at Pacific, with special emphasis on the perspectives of the humanities and social sciences, and then applies understandings of health to the lives of Pacific college students. Students will become familiar with the critical perspectives necessary to view health as a state of equilibrium between an individual and the social, political, and economic environment, rather than simply freedom from disease or pathology. The important roles of social services, health leadership and health policy and governance will be emphasized. Students will also develop an academic plan while learning about University resources and opportunities to help ensure successful academic work.