Course Description:
The primary objective of this course is to orient students to the nature of racial/ethnic structural inequalities in the United States and how these inequities often manifest into poor health outcomes among people of color. Although we often think of inequality as the result of individual choices and values, students will develop a sociological imagination in order to understand how social and health inequities based on race, ethnicity, and immigration status are very much a function of structural inequalities. Students will learn to apply this sociological imagination to challenge typical assumptions regarding the nature of social and health inequality through the investigation of a wide range of intersecting social, historical, and environmental factors.
