HMNT 335 - Social and Cultural Issues (3)

This course will examine and explore the ways in which culture and context shape both provider and client identities as well as their encounters. Students will be exposed to an understanding of their own learned and socially prescribed attitudes and beliefs and examine how their feelings and attitudes may impact their future work with individuals from diverse populations. Topics would include individual identities and systems of societal privilege and oppression associated with gender & sexuality; race/ethnicity; disabilities; class; religion and other forms of cultural influence.    