WRIT 050: HEALTH & SOCIETIES (HSOC)
Spring 2022 Courses
WRIT 050 302
MW 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Chiappini
Drugs for Life: How Big Pharma Defines Our Health
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
How do pharmaceutical companies create new markets surrounding illness? This seminar will explore and interrogate how pharmaceutical drugs are marketed, how clinical trials are designed, and how patients are defined by their illnesses in these new health markets. We will use Joseph Dumit's text Drugs for Life to guide our analysis of the ethics and implications involved in marketing pharmaceuticals. We will use this scholarly text to help us understand writing in the discipline of medical rhetoric anthropology, focusing on the discipline's shared reasoning structures, evidence, and citation practices. In turn, students will be introduced to a variety of new writing situations and strategies, including a white paper and public argument, to sharpen their skills of analysis, research, and critical writing.
WRIT 050 303
MW 5:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Chiappini
Drugs for Life: How Big Pharma Defines Our Health
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
How do pharmaceutical companies create new markets surrounding illness? This seminar will explore and interrogate how pharmaceutical drugs are marketed, how clinical trials are designed, and how patients are defined by their illnesses in these new health markets. We will use Joseph Dumit's text Drugs for Life to guide our analysis of the ethics and implications involved in marketing pharmaceuticals. We will use this scholarly text to help us understand writing in the discipline of medical rhetoric anthropology, focusing on the discipline's shared reasoning structures, evidence, and citation practices. In turn, students will be introduced to a variety of new writing situations and strategies, including a literature review and public argument, to sharpen their skills of analysis, research, and critical writing.
WRIT 050 304
TR 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Libow
A Disability History of the United States
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
In this course, we will examine the history of disability in the United States in order to better understand the policies, practices, and attitudes that impact disabled people in our own time. Working from Kim Nielsen's book A Disability History of the United States, students in this course will study the cultural significance of disability across a range of contexts. From early Indigenous understandings of bodily difference to late-twentieth-century disability activism, disability has had a range of meanings for various groups. We will consider an assortment of disabilities, including physical, cognitive, and sensory impairments, and we will bring an intersectional lens to our topic by asking how the experiences of disabled people have been shaped by ideas about race, ethnicity, gender, and class. We will then use what we have learned about the history of disability to identify related contemporary social problems. Drawing such connections between past and present through a variety of genres, students in this course will use writing to interrogate the ongoing politics of disability, justice, and inclusion.
WRIT 050 305
TR 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Libow
A Disability History of the United States
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
In this course, we will examine the history of disability in the United States in order to better understand the policies, practices, and attitudes that impact disabled people in our own time. Working from Kim Nielsen's book A Disability History of the United States, students in this course will study the cultural significance of disability across a range of contexts. From early Indigenous understandings of bodily difference to late-twentieth-century disability activism, disability has had a range of meanings for various groups. We will consider an assortment of disabilities, including physical, cognitive, and sensory impairments, and we will bring an intersectional lens to our topic by asking how the experiences of disabled people have been shaped by ideas about race, ethnicity, gender, and class. We will then use what we have learned about the history of disability to identify related contemporary social problems. Drawing such connections between past and present through a variety of genres, students in this course will use writing to interrogate the ongoing politics of disability, justice, and inclusion.