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Academics
[Spring 2005]
Penn
strives to present a diverse academic schedule every semester. Below
are several courses dealing with health issues that may be of interest
to you. If you know any more, please recommend them to us - email
us!
NURS
503: Contemporary Issues in Sexual Health
This course emphasizes the theories of sexual development and
sexual behavior within the continuum of health and disease. Common
sexual practices of people, including Penn’s campus, are
studied in relation to life-style and/or situational life crisis.
Contemporary issues in sexuality and health will be examined.
Both in class discussions and out of class assignments require
personal growth and reflection.
Tuesday
and Thursday: 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Anthropology
154: Absolut
Anthropology: The Medical Anthropology of Alcohol Use.
The morality, rights and responsibilities of alcohol use are hotly
debated in the United States. The rhetoric of appropriate use
ranges from Puritan-inspired abstinence campaigns, through health-promoting
moderation arguments, to discourses legitimizing hedonism. The
results of a lack of clear cultural paradigms for intoxicant use
is clearly seen on college campuses, where movements for zero-tolerance
alcohol bans coexist with social rituals that include binge drinking.
This seminar will utilize medical anthropology theory to: 1) contextualize
the phenomenon historically and cross-culturally; 2) encourage
students to critically analyze existing paradigms which determine
acceptable usage and treatment modalities; 3) use the University
of Pennsylvania campus as a local case study/field site to investigate
alcohol use.
Crosslisted
with Health and Society 154
Distribution I: Society
Lecture: Tuesday and Thursday: 12:00 pm - 1:30
pm
Recitation:Tuesday
1:30-2:30 / Thursday 1:30 - 2:30 / Thursday 11:00 - 12:00
Anthropology
441
- Cross Cultural Approaches to Health.
The
relationships between the demographic, sociocultural, and biological
structures of communities and their health problems will be examined
from an anthropological perspective. Emphasis will be given to
folk concepts of disease etiology and their assimilation of modern
health care practices; the ecology and natural history of disease
and characterizing the health status of population aggregates
Crosslisted
with Health and Society 441
Seminiar: Monday 2:00pm - 5:00pm
CPR
Course
Classes
will be held as follows:
Initial
certification ($65):
Monday Sept. 6th 9am-5pm
Location: Hill College House Underground
Recertification ($55):
Tuesday Sept. 7th
8am-12pm or 12:30pm-4:30pm
Location TBA
Please fill out the registration form and
send payments in the form
of a check written out to Student Nurses at Penn to:
Diane Spatz
c/o SNAP
420 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6096
UNITED STATES
Please email Jess Schatz
with any questions
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