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CHS 486

Transcultural Awareness in Public Health

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelUpper Division
Standard

Overview

Description

This course considers issues of human diversity broadly defined to include race, ethnicity, culture, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, and ability. Through an interdisciplinary social science lens, students will explore the contours of difference and the dynamics of diversity, privilege, and oppression in domestic and global contexts in public health.

Requirements

Prerequisites

  • Junior or Senior standing.
Original catalog text

Prerequisites

Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior standing.

Units

Lecture3

Catalog Details

Offering

Offered: Every Fall and Spring

Terms

fall, spring

Core

CO10

Restrictions

Junior or Senior standing.

Attributes

Standard

Learning Outcomes

  • drawing on examples from domestic and global contexts, apply knowledge of the historical and contemporary dynamics of privilege and oppression in society.
  • evaluate the effects of variation between one’s own value and belief system and belief systems of other persons, particularly as these have implications for delivery of health care.
  • drawing on examples from domestic and global contexts, apply knowledge of the historical and contemporary dynamics of privilege and oppression in society.