HLAT 825 - Dei & Accessibility in At

3 Credits

This course is designed to increase the awareness and appreciation of diversity within athletic training and health care. It will examine from perspectives of diverse races, ethnicities, social class, religions, sexual orientation, gender identity, ages, and abilities, through an interprofessional intersection of health care. How do we experience and understand diversity and difference? How do diversity and differences shape systems that affect individuals, families, communities, and society? Students will be introduced to cultural humility, culturally specific approaches to practice, and frameworks for equity and empowerment. Students will examine concepts of health and illness, as viewed from the perspective of the patient, the practitioner, and the public. This course prompts students to think critically about ideas of health and medicine as encompassing a range of social issues, like inequitable housing, restricted education, xenophobia, disparate maternal health and inadequate medical facilities, while exploring the dynamics of diversity, privilege, and oppression in domestic and global contexts. Together, course participants will query how a medical system built on racialized and gendered disparity can be reshaped to offer corrective justice for broad social inequity. Students will be encouraged to develop a critical consciousness and to explore ways of empowering to help eliminate ideologies of unequal treatment.

Credit Type Code: Letter Grade