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COURSE SCHEDULE
Week 1: Introduction to the Course
PART I: BODIES AS BATTLEGROUNDS
Week 2: Sexuality, Gender, & Colonization
Week 3: Standards of Beauty & Public Health
Week 4: Physical & Mental Disability in Public Health
Week 5: Discrimination & Sterilization
PART II: THE MODERN WORLD: URBANIZATION, GLOBALIZATION, & PUBLIC HEALTH
Week 6: Environmental Injustice, Human Rights, & Public Health
Week 7: Voluntourism, Colonization, and the White-Savior Narrative
Week 8: Global Inequity & the Organ Trade
Week 9: Shamanism & Witchcraft
Week 10: Healthcare in the Modern Era: Compliance, Structural Competence, & Cultural Competence
PART III: RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Week 11: Research I: How Institutionalized Racism Affects Research
Week 12: Research II: How Scientific Research Contributes to Institutionalized Racism
Week 13: Research III: Stereotypes & Public Health
Week 14: Presentations
Week 15: Presentations & Wrap-Up
Week 1: Introduction to the Course
PART I: BODIES AS BATTLEGROUNDS
Week 2: Sexuality, Gender, & Colonization
Week 3: Standards of Beauty & Public Health
Week 4: Physical & Mental Disability in Public Health
Week 5: Discrimination & Sterilization
PART II: THE MODERN WORLD: URBANIZATION, GLOBALIZATION, & PUBLIC HEALTH
Week 6: Environmental Injustice, Human Rights, & Public Health
Week 7: Voluntourism, Colonization, and the White-Savior Narrative
Week 8: Global Inequity & the Organ Trade
Week 9: Shamanism & Witchcraft
Week 10: Healthcare in the Modern Era: Compliance, Structural Competence, & Cultural Competence
PART III: RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Week 11: Research I: How Institutionalized Racism Affects Research
Week 12: Research II: How Scientific Research Contributes to Institutionalized Racism
Week 13: Research III: Stereotypes & Public Health
Week 14: Presentations
Week 15: Presentations & Wrap-Up