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Class number:
2997
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Title: Mental Health Politics |
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Department: Sociology |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
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Current enrollment: 18 |
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Available seats: 1 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM, LIB - 119 |
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Instructor(s): Andersson, Tanetta |
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Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: C- or better in Sociology 101 |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Soc Sciences & Identity Power Equity Req |
Course Description:
Why is our mental health system so fragmented? Are prisons the new carceral asylums? What might a people's psychology look like? Sociologists counter the medical model by examining mental health institutions through structural relations and also understand the concept of mental illness as culture-bound. From state-run asylums, community-based care, and the post-deinstitutionalization era, this course traces shifts in our mental health policies. In particular, this course addresses how power interacts with institutions, mental health policy, the logics of the criminal legal system, and medical debates and expertise which medicalize and control people, especially those marginalized by anti-blackness and ableism. |