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(B.A.)
Supervisor of Studies: L. Sawchuk (416-287-7247)
E-mail: sawchukl@scar.utoronto.ca
Health is an extremely important area of study,
both from the perspective of science and social and behavioural
sciences. Social scientists consider a wide range of questions,
such as: how can health systems and public policy be designed
so as to promote health? How does individual behaviour affect
health? How do health and health needs vary over the lifecycle
and between men and women? What can be learned from large scale
survey data about health patterns? This Program groups together
relevant courses from a range of disciplines, of interest to students
who may apply to graduate Programs in health or work in health
and related professions. The Program is intended to be combined
with a major in a relevant discipline.
And 2.5 F.C.E. chosen from the following list (which
must include at least 0.5 F.C.E. at the C- or D-level):
ANTB15Y Biological Anthropology
ANTB20Y Social and Cultural Anthropology
ANTB56H Health and the Urban Environment
ANTC01H The Anthropology of the Body
ANTC61H Medical Anthropology: Illness and Healing
in Cultural Perspective
ANTC62H Medical Anthropology: Biological and Demographic
Perspectives
ANTC63H The Anthropology of Food: Human Needs
ANTC64H The Anthropology of Food: Consuming Passions
ANTD23H Ethnomedicine
BGYC50H Foundations of Epidemiology
HLTC01H Directed Readings on Health Services and
Institutions
HLTD01H Directed Readings in Health Studies
LSCA05H Human Biology
WSTC30H Special Topics in Women's Studies and Gender Issues (if offered as women and health)
HLTD01H Directed Readings in Health Studies (reading
course)
Considers the origins, antiquity and impact of plagues on human societies (e.g., the Black Death, Tuberculosis and poverty complex, Cholera and sanitary movement, Black Vomit Fever and the price of trade, the 'quiet' epidemics of sexually transmitted diseases). Such epidemics of infectious disease have dramatically influenced the course of human history and continue to exact a huge toll on human life. The course will embrace cultural, evolutionary, epidemiological and ecological themes. An exploration of models and general principles of infectious disease or "plagues" will be followed by an examination of specific "plagues" as a means of examining the bio-social and environmental contexts within which epidemics arise and the ways in which they transform societies. Consideration will be given to historic, contemporary and newly-emerging infectious epidemics, with a view to understanding why "plagues" emerge and how their occurrence is intimately linked to human behaviour.
Two hours of lectures per week.
Exclusion: BGYC50H
Provides students with the opportunity to analyze work of health institutions.
Students taking this course will arrange, in consultation with the instructor, to work (usually as a volunteer) in a health institution. They will write a major research paper related to some aspect of their experience. They will build on material learned in IDSB04H and complement work in POLC55H. Students must obtain consent from the Supervisor of Studies and supervising instructor before registering for this course.
Prerequisite: HLTA01H & IDSB04H & permission of the instructor
Co-requisite: POLC55H is recommended Members of Faculty
For upper level students whose interests are not covered in one of the other courses normally offered. Courses will normally only be available to students in their final year of study at the College. Students must obtain consent from the Supervisor of Studies and supervising instructor before registering for this course.
Prerequisite: HLTA01H & IDSB04H & POLC55H & permission of the instructor Members of Faculty
University of Toronto at Scarborough 2001/2002 Calendar
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