Course and site listing for Aimee Woda
HEAL 1025: Culture and Health
Course Learning Objectives Related to Service Learning:
- Identify differences and similarities in communication, values, practices, and beliefs between ones’ own culture and other cultures.
- Explain how categories of human diversity (such as race, gender, ethnicity, and disability) influence personal identities and can create structural and institutional inequity.
- Critically reflect upon one’s personal and cultural presuppositions and now these affect one’s values and relationships
- Explore select cultural theories to enhance students’ ability to work with people from different cultures
- Analyze the health/illness beliefs and practices of selected populations
- Identify differences and similarities in communication, values, practices, and beliefs between one’s own culture and other cultures
- Explain the relationships among social determinants of health (such as race, gender, ethnicity, and disability), health care systems, and health disparities.
Placement Options:
- AIDS Resource Center of WI: Prevention Services
- Aurora Adult Day Center
- Boys and Girls Club
- Central City Churches Emergency Needs Ministry
- Children's Hospital Child Protection Center
- City on a Hill
- Community Care
- Core/ El Centro
- Council for the Spanish Speaking
- El Puente High School
- English Language Partners
- Guest House
- Hmong American Friendship Center
- Hmong American Women's Association
- Hope House
- Jewish Home and Care Center
- Journey House
- Midnight Run
- Milwaukee Center for Independence
- Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility
- Our Next Generation
- Pan African Community Association
- Playworks
- Redeemer Lutheran Church
- Repairers of the Breach
- St. Ann's Center for Intergenerational Care
- St. Ann's Rest Home
- UCC YES Project
- Urban Ecology Center
**Option for both Service Learning and NOYCE students.**
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