SOCY1078 · Sociology
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
| Term | Evaluations | Course rating | Instructor rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2025 | 1 | 4.6 | 4.7 |
| Fall 2024 | 1 | 4.5 | 4.7 |
| Spring 2024 | 1 | 4.7 | 4.8 |
| Summer 2021 | 1 | 4.9 | 5.0 |
| Spring 2021 | 1 | 3.7 | 3.8 |
| Spring 2020 | 1 | 3.3 | 3.2 |
4 of 4 instructors
This is an undergraduate-level course in the sociology of health and illness, an incredibly broad and fragmented field that frequently overlaps with medical anthropology, public health, and other disciplines. The first half of this course focuses on thesocial roots of sickness. The second half concerns thesocial relations of medicine. While well treat these as relatively autonomous topics, well also spend time addressing the mismatches between the forces that make people sick and the organized reactions to sickness. Well also study a number of general structures and processes that simultaneously affect health and care. For example, well study how capitalism, racism, and sexism make people sick. Well then study how these same systems shape, and are shaped by, medicine.
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Amazing professor and always kept the class engaged! The topics are super interesting and are applicable even if you're not pre med or looking into healthcare. Course load is two exams and journal entries + final reflection project which are all super manageable.
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Professor Seim is amazing! I highly recommend taking his course even if you are not a science major / interested in healthcare. He is incredibly fair and cares about his students. The course load is very manageable