This specialization offers students several courses throughout their degree program that focus on conceptualizations of health, illness and disease, social determinants of health, income security, Indigenous health, and the intersections of gender and health. In their final year, students explore such topics as the current ‘crisis’ in health care, and the pharmaceutical industry, with opportunities for research practicum with faculty members.
For more detailed information on the courses listed below please visit: https://www.trentu.ca/sociology/program/course-listing
Required Courses
SOCI 2630H - Sociology of Health & Illness
SOCI 3631H - Sociology of Healthcare
Students must also complete 4 courses from the following list:
SOCI-ECON-NURS 2015H - Critical Perspectives on Aging
SOCI-HIST 2601H - Public Health and Medicine: Doctors, Nurses, and Patients in History
SOCI 3250H - Sociological Perspectives on Homelessness
SOCI-SAFS-CAST-ERST 3341H: The Canadian Food System: Community Perspectives and Experiences
SOCI-GESO 3440H - Sexuality & the Social
SOCI-HIST 3630H: Plagues, Poxes and Pandemics: Disease in History from the Black Death to COVID
SOCI 4050H - Sociology of Pharmaceuticals
SOCI 4410H - Cultures of Knowledge
SOCI 4420H - Aging & the Lifecourse
SOCI-IDST-ANTH 4512H - Contemporary Issues in Global Health
SOCI-CAST-GESO 4550Y/4551H - Gender and Disability in Canada
SOCI 4620H - Studies in Social Policy
SOCI 4850H - Sociology of the Body