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This course explores the social aspects of health and wellbeing, examining the connection between social structures and health outcomes. Focusing on health institutions, people’s experiences within the health system, and different ways of constructing health and illness, we will look at inequalities and health, culture and health, mental health, doctor-patient relationships, and health advocacy, amongst other topics. Students gain a broad understanding of the Aotearoa New Zealand health scene. Students will also have an opportunity to think about health and wellbeing in relation to their own lives and, through community service learning, to apply classroom learning about health and wellbeing issues to real-time situations.
By the end of this course, we will be able to: discuss patterns of health inequalities in Aotearoa New Zealand (and beyond), recognising how social class, race/ethnicity, gender/sex, and other sociodemographic factors shape health and illness over the life course;become familiar with a range of sociological theories related to health, illness and medicine;critically reflect on the place and role of medicine and public health in contemporary society and everyday life (*think about health and illness in relation to our own lives);discuss the relationship between social organisation and health outcomes;apply classroom learning about health-related issues to real-time situations in our society through community service learning
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:
Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award
Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.
Employable, innovative and enterprising
Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.
Biculturally competent and confident
Students will be aware of and understand the nature of biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, and its relevance to their area of study and/or their degree.
Engaged with the community
Students will have observed and understood a culture within a community by reflecting on their own performance and experiences within that community.
Globally aware
Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.
Any 15 points at 100 level from ANTH or SOCI, orany 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
SOCI343
Students must attend one activity from each section.
Shinya Uekusa
Dew K., Scott, A. & Kirkman, A. Springer Nature; Social, Political and Cultural Dimensions of Health ; 2016 (E-version of this book is available at: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-31508-9).
William C. Cockerham. Wiley Blackwell; The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology ; 2021 (E-version of this book is available at: http://ezproxy.canterbury.ac.nz/login?url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10. 1002/9781119633808).
Domestic fee $894.00
International fee $4,100.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
This course will not be offered if fewer than 15 people apply to enrol.
For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .