Goucher College 2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalogue 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
Goucher College 2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.

CPED 202 - Disease and Discrimination, Biology focus (4 Cr.)

(GCR RPP)(GCR Biological and Physical Science area)
How do diseases get in to and affect the body? How do the conditions in which we live, work, and play impact health?  In this course we examine the biological aspects of disease as well as the intersecting inequalities (race, class, sex, sexuality, and others) that contribute to it.  We will study the biomedical and social determinants and consequences of 2 diseases -one infectious (HIV) and one non-infectious (diabetes). Working individually and in cooperative groups, students will then embark on bio-social explorations of a health condition of their choice (from Alzheimer’s to Zika) within a local or international setting (from Baltimore to Mumbai). Students may NOT take this course if they have already completed the CPEB 205  course with a similar title/content. Restricted to first-year through junior students or others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Cresiski and Greenberg.