201. Violence as a Health Problem in the United States. (2-4 units) § Wi, Sp. Prerequisites: None. Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 0-6 hours.
H. Pinderhughes
Course explores scope and etiology of violence in the United States. Discussion includes the links between different types of violence, examination of competing theoretical approaches to explain the courses of violence and different policy approaches to resolve and prevent violence. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
202. Future of Health and Health Care. (2 units) § Wi. Prerequisites: None. Restrictions: None Lecture 1 hours. Seminar 3 hours.
A. Gardner
Course provides an overview of the “Futures” field, including key history, theory and practice. Course content will review tools that futurists use to envision the future(s). Students will engage in weekly discussions of the readings, with an emphasis on visions of the future, and apply futures concepts to develop alternative scenarios. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
207. Sociology of Health & Medicine. (2-4 units) § Fa. Prerequisites: None. Restrictions: Doctoral students in any field; other students with instructor approval only. Laboratory 3 hours. Seminar 9 hours.
J. Shim
Course introduces the student to classical perspectives in medical sociology and development of a critical perspective in the field to serve as a foundation for independent and advanced study in medical sociology. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
208. Social Psychol of Hlth & Illness. (2-4 units) § Wi. Prerequisites: None. Restrictions: Doctoral students in any field; other students with instructor approval only. Seminar 9 hours. Project 3 hours.
J. Shim
Course examines the relationship of social class, ethnic identification, group membership, family structure, occupation, and lifestyle to health and illness, and therapeutic interaction of lay persons and health professionals. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
210. Proseminar in Health Policy. (1 units) § Fa, Wi. Seminar 1 hours.
C. Harrington, D. Bakerjian
Seminar to extend knowledge of the varied scope of health policy research and analysis. The focus will be on specific policy research, analysis and implementation strategies. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
211. Information Technology & Organizational Change. (2-3 units) § Sp. Prerequisites: S262 or S225, or Biomedical Informatics 200 or consent of instructor. Seminar 2 hours.
R. Miller
The course examines medical records (EMRs) in health care organizations, focusing on: EMR capabilities, use, costs and benefits; factors affecting costs and benefits; theories of innovation diffusion; the relationship between IT and organizational changes; EMR health policy options. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
212A. Sociological Theory: Classical. (5 units) § Fa. Prerequisites: Doctoral students only. Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 9 hours.
B. Powers
Course examines and evaluates classical and recent contributions to sociological theory. The main objective is the generation of a critical capacity with respect to received theory in both its formal and substantive varieties. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
212B. Sociological Theory: Contemporary. (5 units) § Wi, Sp. Prerequisites: S212A and must be a doctoral student. Lecture 2 hours. Library 9 hours.
J. Shim
Course examines and evaluates contemporary contributions to sociological theory. The main objective is the generation of a critical capacity with respect to received theory in both its formal and substantive varieties. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
212C. Sociological Theory: Symbolic Interactionism. (5 units) § Wi, Sp. Prerequisites: S212AB or permission of instructor. Lecture 2 hours. Library 9 hours.
B. Powers
Course consists of readings and discussions on interactionist theory in sociology, with emphasis on the origins and development of the Chicago School of Sociology, as well as an examination of the link between philosophy of pragmatism and interactionism. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
218. Adv Topics in the Socio-Analysis of Aging. (2-4 units) § Wi. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 0-6 hours.
G. Becker
Course is designed for doctoral students investigating advanced research issues preparatory to qualifying examinations. Topics to be analyzed will vary each year, but will be focused upon a specific area. Laboratory assignments are for research activities on special topics in the area of aging. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
219. Social Policy & Aging. (2-4 units) § Wi, Sp. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 0-6 hours.
P. Fox
Course will provide a critical analysis of major social, economic and political issues of growing old in America; including issues of chronic illness, disabilities,social policy in the public and private sectors including health, income, and social services, and political movements. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
221. Qualifying Examination. (1-8 units) § Fa, Wi, Sp, SS1, SS2, SS3. Prerequisites: Completion of preliminary examinations. Laboratory 3-24 hours.
Staff
Course will offer preparation for the specialty area qualifying examination. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
222. Health Care Economics & Policy. (2 units) § Wi. Prerequisites: None. Restrictions: None Lecture 2 hours.
S. Chapman
Critical analysis of economic, sociological, and political factors that affect health care. Examines U.S. health policies that impact on access, quality, costs, delivery systems, professional practices, and reform. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
223. Perspectives on Public Policy. (3 units) § Fa, Wi, Sp. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours.
H. Pinderhughes
Course offers systematic overview of health policy in American governmentðits scope, dynamics, and conceptual and practical dilemmas. Students will become acquainted with major issues involved in formulating, financing, implementing, and assessing patterns of decision (i.e., policy) established by government. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
225. Organizational Analysis of US Healthcare. (4 units) § Wi. Prerequisites: None. Restrictions: None. Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 0-9 hours. Seminar 2 hours.
J. Schmittdiel, M. Wang
Develops capacity to understand and conduct systematic research on health care orgs. Covers theoretical perspectives on organizations: contingency theory, resource dependency, organizational ecology, inst. theory, networks, strategic management, economic perspectives. Perspectives are considered in the context of studies of organizations including: hospitals, HMO's, mental health agencies, nursing homes, biotech firms, and academic health centers. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
227. Advanced Organizational Analysis of U.S. Healthcare. (1-2 units) § Sp. Prerequisites: Successful completion of UCSF S225 or similar introduction to organizational analysis of healthcare. Restrictions: None. Laboratory 1 hours. Project 3 hours.
M. Kitchener
This seminar allows those who have completed an introductory course in organizational analysis to extend their capacity to conduct theory-based research in healthcare settings. The seminar considers recent applications of theoretical perspectives such as institutional theory and participants develop an analytical framework for a research project of their choice using: a generic model, the weekly reading, and class discussion. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
230. Sociocultural Issues in AIDS. (2-3 units) § Wi. Seminar 2 hours. Project 3 hours.
R. Eversley
Course examines the history and social psychology of AIDS in relation to health, illness, disease, and death. Includes demographic trends, the cost burden, and special problems of minorities, women, and caregivers, along with policy issues. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
233. Sociology of Aging. (2 units) § Fa, Wi, Sp. Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours.
P. Fox
Course reviews theories of aging including a review of theories of aging, current and historical trends in aging, factors related to aging, effects of aging on individuals and families, and formal and informal service systems for an aging population. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
235. Tobacco Control Policy Issues. (1-3 units) § Sp. Lecture 1 hours. Seminar 0-2 hours. Project 0-3 hours.
E. Smith
Course focuses on issues and evolution of tobacco control policies in the U.S. and internationally. Lectures and readings in the history of tobacco control will prepare students to engage in weekly discussions and case studies of particular tobacco control policies. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
236. Race/Class Factors in Hlth Care Delivery. (3 units) § Fa. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours.
H. Pinderhughes
Course examines racial and class membership impact on access to health care services, variations in the quality of those services, and how professional and subprofessional roles in the health care system are organized along racial and class lines. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
238. Feminist Theory. (2-4 units) § Fa, Wi, Sp. Prerequisites: Some background in social theory. Lecture 2 hours. Field Work 0-6 hours.
S. Dworkin
Course provides in-depth overview and examination of 20th-century feminist theories from sociology, anthropology, and interdisciplinary perspectives. Emphasis is on current contributions and debates, with attention to relations between feminist theories and issues for research in women's health and healing. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
240. Older Women's Issues. (2-4 units) § Fa, Wi. Laboratory 0-6 hours. Seminar 2 hours.
C. Estes
Course analyzes postmenopausal women's socioeconomic status and changing social roles. Topics include demographic issues, economic trends, individual social and health status, policy implications for individuals and society. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
245. Gender, Race & Coloniality. (3 units) § Sp. Seminar 3 hours.
A. Clarke
Course is a study of historical and contemporary issues in the social construction of biological and medical sciences, epistemological problems, and feminist perspectives. Focus is on impact of gender on scientific work and includes scientific constructions of gender and women's careers in science. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
246. Communications & Policy Leadership. (3 units) § Sp. Prerequisites: None. Restrictions: None. Lecture 1 hours. Seminar 6 hours. Project 3 hours.
C. Harrington
Course focuses on developing students' skills in various types of policy-relevant communications and leadership across different policy venues. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
248. Group Independent Study. (1-4 units) § Fa, Wi, Sp. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Seminar 1-4 hours.
Staff
Groups of two or more students select special problems to investigate on a collaborative basis. These studies may be conducted through readings, the collection or analysis of empirical data, or the development of conceptual analysis or of methodologies. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
249. Special Studies. (1-8 units) § Fa, Wi, Sp, SS1, SS2, SS3. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Project 3-24 hours.
Staff
Students select special problems to investigate on an individual or collaborative basis. These studies may be conducted through readings, the collection or analysis of empirical data, or the development of conceptual analysis or of methodologies. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
260. Policy and Politics of Health. (2-5 units) § Fa, Wi, Sp. Lecture 2 hours. Field Work 0-9 hours.
C. Harrington
Course examines health care policy and politics in terms of historical and contemporary issues related to access, quality, and cost. Organizational, financing, and labor market issues are included, along with strategies for social change. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
272. Dissertation Research Seminar. (1-3 units) § Fa, Wi, Sp. Laboratory 0-6 hours. Seminar 1 hours.
S. Kaufman
Course addresses logic of research design and execution for students. Clarification of research question, delineation of work plan, and orientation to relevant theoretical literature or empirical data available. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
277. Seminar on Disability. (1-3 units) § Fa, Wi, Sp. Prerequisites: Doctoral students. Laboratory 3 hours. Seminar 1-2 hours.
M. La Plante
Course covers social and medical models and theories of disability and handicap. Areas covered include definitions, utility of role theory, models of identification and causation, and social perspectives on disability policy. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
282. Sociology of Science/Technology. (2-4 units) § Wi, Sp. Laboratory 0-6 hours. Seminar 2 hours.
A. Clarke
Offered in alternate years. Course examines early functionalist and Marxist theories, Kuhn"s work, social constructionist, ethnomethodolical, interactionist, neo-functionalist, critical, and neo-Marxist perspectives. Focuses on laboratory, controversy, technological, and representational studies and organization and funding. Links history and philosophy. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
284. Health Care Economics. (4 units) Wi. Seminar 3 hours. Project 3 hours.
W. Max
Course examines basic economic theory as applied to the health care sector. This will include the structure of health care service and labor markets and the analysis of critical economic and cost issues relevant to public policy. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
285A. Qualitative Methods I. (5 units) § Fa. Prerequisites: Second-year doctoral students. Seminar 3 hours. Field Work 6 hours.
A. Clarke, H. Kennedy
Course reviews many of the types of qualitative research methods, emphasizing assumptions, approaches. Focus on design, entree, ethics, data-gathering techniques (interviewing, observing), data recording and management. Introduction to data analysis. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
285B. Qualitative Methods II. (5 units) § Wi. Prerequisites: N285A/S285A and second-year doctoral students. Seminar 3 hours. Field Work 6 hours.
A. Clarke, H. Kennedy
Course compares and contrasts modes of qualitative analysis. Examines issues in establishing plausibility, credibility, adequacy. Intensive data analysis and examination of the problems of presentation of findings with focus on questions of authority and preparation of text. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
285C. Qualitative Analysis. (3 units) § Fa, Wi, Sp. Prerequisites: S285A and S285B/N285A and N285B. Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 3 hours.
A. Clarke, P. Benner, V. Olesen
In-depth experience with specific type of qualitative research guided by instructor trained and experienced in that approach. Styles of work offered by various instructors will include advanced grounded theory analysis, ethnography, hermeneutic analysis, narrative analysis. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
286. Gender, Sex, and Health. (2-4 units) § Fa. Lecture 2 hours. Field Work 0-6 hours. Library 0-6 hours.
A. Clarke, J. Fosket
Course examines women's participation in formal/informal health and healing systems, emphasizing health problems, recruitment to health professions, images of women in health and illness, and women as providers. Health issues of women of color in the U.S. are highlighted ( department: SOC BEH SC )
289A. Advanced Quantitative Research Methods I. (5 units) § Fa. Prerequisites: N209 and N212 or equivalent, B187. Restrictions: Doctoral students only. Lecture 5 hours.
M. White, R. Newcomer
Course addresses theoretical basis of advanced quantitative methods. Fundamental issues of causality and design issues pertinent to causality are addressed using randomized clinical trials and models for experimental designs. Methods of sampling and issues in data collection and measurement are explored. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
289B. Advanced Quantitative Research Methods II. (5 units) § Wi. Prerequisites: S289A and Doctoral students only. Lecture 5 hours.
J. Mullan, R. Newcomer
The second course in a two-quarter series provides a pratical understanding of the statistical procedures including logistic regression, repeated measures, survival analysis, latent variables and structural equation modeling, and cost effectiveness analysis. Attention is given to "how and when" to use each, how to diagnose and adjust to violations of the functional form and other assumptions of these procedures, and how to interpret computer output. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
289C. Advanced Measurement Methods. (3 units) § Sp. Prerequisites: S289A and S289B or equivalent courses in quantitative methods. Lecture 2 hours. Seminar 3 hours.
A. Stewart
Overview of current standard approaches to conceptualizing and measuring self-reported health, review of psychometric properties of self-reported measiures of health, adequacy of measurement in diverse populations, development of health status surveys, and selection of approriate measures for research purposes. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
299. Dissertation. (0 units) § Su, Fa, Wi, Sp, SS1, SS2, SS3. Prerequisites: Advancement to candidacy and permission of the graduate adviser.
Staff
For graduate students engaged in writing the dissertation for the PhD degree. ( department: SOC BEH SC )
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