SOC-205 The Sociology of Mental Health and Illness

What is mental illness? How have societal views of it changed over time? How do people enter treatment systems? In this course we will examine sociological insights into mental illness, including the "socially constructed" nature of mental illness and the pervasive stigma experienced by those who contend with it. Together, we will challenge our commonly held (mis)conceptions of mental illness.

Maximum Enrollment

Writing-Intensive (18)

(Writing Intensive, Social Structural and Institutional Hierarchies, Seminar.)

Credits

1

Prerequisite

One Sociology course or consent of instructor

Notes

This course will be offered as a writing-intensive and non-writing-intensive course at the Department's discretion.