SOSC 3B06 Mental Health: Science, Culture, Society (NOT OFFERED IN FALL/WINTER 2012-13) 0.50 Credit(s) Academic Course |
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Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits), and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal arts & sciences (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM). |
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This course provides a theoretical approach to understanding the role of psychiatric science in society and culture. Students will read from historical and critical literatures on scientific and cultural practices of mental health and illness in western societies and beyond, with attention to late capitalist practices. The class will explore mental health in a model suggesting that scientific knowledges change with paradigms of thought. Mental health will be positioned as a range personal, social and scientific “technologies” which often produce particular behaviors. Topics of discussion will include: the interstices of art and madness, changing notions of the human subject and the self, health’s relationship to citizenship and consumer society, and the historical pathologisation of distinct populations of people, based on gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and more. |
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Anti-requisite: Students who have taken HUMN 4B91: Special Topic in Humanities: Mental Health, Culture & Society or HUMN 4B02: Mental Healthy, Culture & Society may not take this course for further credit |
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Notes: Designation and course code change 2010-11 |
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Course was last updated June 19, 2012 - 5:01 PM |