Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Sociology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: IMMIGRATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH ***** The purpose of this course is to understand the relationship between international migration and public health. We will examine how immigration has been linked to disease in the past, and how it affects the public health of current populations. Throughout the course, we will identify the substantive and methodological complexities embedded in the health-migration relationship and discuss their role in shaping public policy debates worldwide. This course is taught at the UT School of Public Health and cross-listed as PH 3998. ***** Enrollment is limited to 30.