Dec 04, 2025  
Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HWC 510 - Social Policy and Social Determinants


This course builds upon the Foundations of Social Justice: Challenging Oppression  course through the discussion and exploration of social policies, social determinants of health, and contemporary & historical social movements that have arisen to challenge oppression. This course utilizes frameworks for social policy analysis while addressing continuing dilemmas in policy development. Experiential learning and beyond-the-classroom experiences introduce students to the processes and dynamics of social movements, social change, and their effects on social policy. Class meets two hours in-class and one hour of instructor directed assignments.

3 credits

Prerequisite(s): Admission to Graduate Health Sciences Program; HWC 509  

Corequisite(s): HWC 596B  OR matriculated in Part-time SSW Grad Program

Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)



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