Course Description
The course addresses significant issues in African American health, heath care, and well-being, focusing on understanding the historical context of health and exploring strategies for addressing health disparities and promoting health equity. The course also will include health professions and services. Qualitative and quantitative methods may be utilized.
Athena Title
Afri Amer Soci and Health
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in SOCI 4600, AFAM 4600
Prerequisite
AFAM(HIST) 2000 or AFAM 2000H
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Students will learn, analyze, and articulate the history of healthcare for African Americans, beginning on the African continent with the Slave Trade and in the slave system.
- Students will learn, analyze, and articulate the cultural influences that formed and informed diaspora Africans in healthcare in the New World. Students will use theoretical, interdisciplinary frameworks in African American Studies and Sociology to understand the concepts used in analysis of African American health. This will include analyzing articles and other texts to engage historical, symbolic, and other knowledges, as well as analyzing and developing quantitative and qualitative data.
- Students will learn to identify and understand key health issues affecting African Americans.
- Students will learn to analyze and apply the social determinants of health on African Americans.
- Students will learn, analyze, and articulate strategies for addressing health disparities and promoting health equity.
Topical Outline
- Trans-Atlantic Trafficking: The trade, the ships, and the ships' doctors
- Medicine, Knowledge, and Power in the Slave Trade
- Care in the Domestic Slave Trade
- Health and Medicine on the Plantation: Racial Health Disparities
- African American Indigenous Medicines: From Africa to America, Hoodoo and Beyond
- African American Distrust of the Healthcare System
- African American and African Personhood: Double Consciousness and Spiritual Health
- Social Determinants of Health
- African American Health from Reconstruction to the modern Civil Rights Era
Institutional Competencies Learning Outcomes
Analytical Thinking
The ability to reason, interpret, analyze, and solve problems from a wide array of authentic contexts.
Critical Thinking
The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action.
Social Awareness & Responsibility
The capacity to understand the interdependence of people, communities, and self in a global society.
