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SOCI 375 - Sociology of Diagnosis

Credit(s): 3
SOCIOLOGY OF DIAGNOSIS
Component: Lecture
Diagnosis is central to medicine. Sociologists are interested in how diagnoses and illness categories are socially constructed, applied, and serve to organize society into the healthy and the ill. This class examines the way that medical diagnoses are shaped and their powerful role in society.
Repeatable for Credit: N Allowed Units: 3 Multiple Term Enrollment: N Grading Basis: Student Option
College of Arts and Sciences Breadth: A&S GROUP C: Social and Behavioral Sciences
General Education Objectives:
GE1B: Analyze Arguments and Information GE1C: Engage in Constructive Ideation GE2A: Communicate Effectively in Writing GE2B: Communicate Orally GE5A: Reason Quantitatively GE5B: Reason Computationally GE5C: Reason Scientifically