OSPGEN 21: Public Health and Primary Health Care in a Changing Community Context
Strategies and controversies in community health policy and practice as expressed in the Western Cape region of S. Africa. Topics: an upstream population approach to health and disease; economic and social determinants of health; social analysis of patterns of disease and death; role of physicians in community health; epidemiological approaches to health needs of underserved populations; healthcare priorities in the new S. Africa. Students conduct community-based public health assessments. Location: Cape Town, South Africa.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: GER:DBSocSci
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
OSPGEN 22: Community Reconstruction and Development in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Emphasis is on theory and practice of community reconstruction and development using the Western Cape region as a case study. How S. African communities redress economic injustice and stagnation in partnership with nongovernmental organizations, metropolitan government agencies, and higher education institutions. Innovative processes of community development and local policies and contexts that support or inhibit these approaches. Service-learning component. Location: Cape Town, South Africa.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: GER:ECGlobalCom
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
OSPGEN 23: History and Politics of South Africa in Transition
S. Africa's unfolding democratic era: its achievements in development and reconciliation; and challenges related to continuing poverty, a stagnant economy and high unemployment, and HIV and other health challenges. Topics: modern South African politics; affirmative action and employment equity; the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; violence and ethnicity; racial identity and racism; S. Africa and the African Renaissance; and land distribution and restoration. Location: Cape Town, South Africa.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: GER:DBSocSci
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
OSPGEN 24: Targeted Research Project
Research that responds to needs of Western Cape communities or health service providers, and ties in to disciplinary course work. Location: Cape Town, South Africa.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 4
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
OSPGEN 30: Rio de Janeiro: A Cultural History
Cultural and historical aspects of Rio de Janeiro from the 19th Century Imperial city to 21st Century contemporary Rio. Key cultural characters and their close relationship to Rio's landscape characteristics. Immersion into the urban, political, social, cultural, and racial dynamics of Brazil condensed in Rio de Janeiro's history. Portuguese language instruction; invited speakers from PUC-Rio and Federal University. Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 2
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Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
OSPGEN 31: Minority as Cultural Form in South Asia
The importance of minority South Asia, both historically and in the present. From vantage points of visits to Delhi, the administrative capital of India, and Bombay/Mumbai, regarded as its financial hub, negotiate and analyze minority cultural and political formations in India. Of special interest: colonialism, nationalism, partition, the Emergency, the anti-Sikh riots of 1984, the rise of Hindu nationalism, the status of Muslim minorities, gender reform, anti-caste radicalism, labor movements, LGBT agitations. Location: New Delhi and Mumbai, India
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 2
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
OSPGEN 32: The Amsterdam Trans-Idiomatic Arts Practicum
Reflection on the difference between ¿home¿ and ¿away¿ through the prism of art. Review arts events throughout Amsterdam in varying media and complete similarly varied original art projects in response. Lectures, discussion, ¿atelier laboratories,¿ walking tours, and regional field trips. Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 2
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
OSPGEN 33: Issues of Development in Northern Tanzania
Economic and cultural issues affecting development in the Arusha region of northern Tanzania. Opportunities, challenges, and contradictions in East Africa with the tension between preservation of traditional values and economic and cultural pressures of globalization. Three modules, Health and Disease; Education and Technology; Conservation, Tourism and Land Resource Management, address such issues as infectious disease, resource management, water conservation, ecological decline, and microfinance. Need for holistic approach to development. Location is Arusha Tanzania.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 2
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Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
OSPGEN 34: History, Memory and Global Experience in Eastern Mediterranean
History, memory, and globalization as experienced in Istanbul, Turkey. How different discourses of past are represented in a city by competing political, ethnic, religious, socio-economic, and gender groups. Examination of the habitus and lifeword of this urban space. How are Roman, Ottoman, Muslim, Christian, Greek, Turkish, Armenian, Kurdish, Anatolian, European, Asian, global, nationalist, socialist, anarchist, conservative, woman, macho, gay, lesbian, coastal, earthy Istanbul represented, covered, remembered, forgotten, and contested in the public discourse and visual face of the city? Location is Istanbul, Turkey.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 2
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Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
OSPGEN 40: Community Health in Oaxaca
Social, economic, and cultural factors impacting the health of Mexicans and Mexican immigrants to the United States. Broaden public health knowledge, increase linguistic competency in Spanish, and gain exposure to health care systems and clinical interactions in another culture. Close observation of clinicians at work in community health settings; service with local community health organizations. Structured reflection sessions support integration of studies with clinical observations and service work.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 2
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Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit