SOC 4147 is also offered in Spring 2024
SOC 4147 is also offered in Spring 2023
SOC 4147 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2024 | SOC 4147 Section 001: Sociology of Mental Health & Illness (65426)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 317
- Enrollment Status:
Open (76 of 80 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed to give you an overview of the ways a sociological perspective informs our understanding of mental health and illness. While sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and others all deal with issues of mental illness, they often approach the topic in very different ways. In general, a sociological perspective tends to focus on aspects of the social environment that we often ignore, neglect, or take for granted. It calls attention to how society or groups are organized, who benefits or is hurt by the way things are organized, and what beliefs shape our behaviors. In viewing mental illness, sociologists have primarily challenged dominant views of mental illness, examined how social relationships play a role in mental illness, questioned the goals and implications of mental health policy and researched how mental health services are organized and provided. prereq: Soc 1001 recommended, Soc majors/minors must register A-F
- Class Notes:
- Click this link for more detailed information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mill8570+SOC4147+Spring2024
- Class Description:
- This course is designed to give you an overview of the ways a sociological perspective informs our understanding of mental health and illness. While sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and others all deal with issues of mental illness, they often approach the topic in very different ways. In general, a sociological perspective tends to focus on aspects of the social environment that we often ignore, neglect, or take for granted. It calls attention to how society or groups are organized, who benefits or is hurt by the way things are organized, and what beliefs shape our behaviors. In viewing mental illness, sociologists have primarily challenged dominant views of mental illness, examined how social relationships play a role in mental illness, questioned the goals and implications of mental health policy and researched how mental health services are organized and provided.
- Learning Objectives:
- • To understand the sociological imagination and learn how to use this concept to analyze
various social issues.
• To understand the interplay of biological, medical, and social factors in defining and treating mental illness.
• To understand the interaction between structure and agency in shaping individual and
group experiences of mental health and illness.
• To understand how social inequality and social power influence experiences of mental health and illness.
• To gain an overview of many different issues involved in mental health and illness and the way it is defined and treated in society.
• To develop and improve the presentation of ideas through reading and writing skills.
- Grading:
- A-F or Audit
- Exam Format:
- 2 exams, 2 short papers, 1 final paper, bi-weekly reading annotations, weekly in-class assignments.
- Class Format:
- Classes will consist of a mixture of lecture and discussion
- Workload:
- 30-75 pages of reading a week.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65426/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 27 October 2023
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2024 Sociology Classes