Mental Illness and Society
SOC 241
Fall 2013
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01
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Psychiatric disorders are commonly viewed through a purely biomedical and/or a psychological framework. In this course, we will apply a sociological imagination to the topic and interrogate the ways in which mental illness, often seen as a supremely private "personal trouble," is also a "public issue." We will read the works of both classic and contemporary scholars, but we will also use memoirs and films to sensitize us to the experience of mental illness itself. We will explore mental illness as a social construction, stigma, labeling theory, as well as issues of gender, race, class, and sexual orientation in mental illness. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS SOC |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Sigmund Freud, DORA
Marya Horbacher, MADNESS: A BIPOLAR LIFE
David A. Karp, SPEAKING OF SADNESS
David A. Karp & Gretchen E. Sisson, VOICES FROM THE INSIDE
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Examinations and Assignments:
3 papers and 2 presentations |
| Instructor(s): Birk,Lara Times: .M.W... 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: SCIE141; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 4 | | |
| | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 4 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 3 | FR: X |
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