SOC 3246 is also offered in Fall 2024
SOC 3246 is also offered in Fall 2022
SOC 3246 is also offered in Summer 2022
SOC 3246 is also offered in Fall 2021
SOC 3246 is also offered in Summer 2021
Fall 2021 | SOC 3246 Section 001: Diseases, Disasters, & Other Killers (22237)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Partially Online
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 155
UMTC, West Bank
UMN ONLINE-HYB
- Enrollment Status:
Open (81 of 83 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course studies the social pattern of mortality, beginning with demographic transition theory. Students will study specific causes of death or theories of etiology, including theories about suicide, fundamental cause theory, and the role of early life conditions in mortality. Students learn tools for studying mortality, including cause of death classifications and life tables. Soc majors/minors must register A-F.
- Class Notes:
- This lecture is completely online. On Tuesdays, the lecture will meet in a synchronous format at the scheduled time. The remaining lecture material will be available online in an asynchronous format. Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ewf+SOC3246+Fall2021
- Class Description:
- This class is about the past, present, and future of why people die. Why did infectious diseases rapidly seem to disappear--and will they come back? How have historical changes in social organization and interaction with the natural environment changed when and how we die, and what do medical advances, climate change, and persistent inequalities imply for what we might die of in the future?
We will:
* Explore the causes and consequences of a historic worldwide transformation in death and disease
* Analyze how that transformation occurred differently in different parts of the world, and why it matters
* Consider to what extent mortality can--or can't--be further eradicated.
- Grading:
- Grades will be based on three written essays, regular reading responses, and regular (approximately weekly) reading quizzes.
- Class Format:
- Lecture and discussion
- Workload:
- Substantial reading; regular quizzes based on readings (lowest two dropped); three essays
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/22237/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 29 March 2021
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