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SOCL 150W: Social Perspectives on Community Health
Monica D. Griffin, Sharpe Community Partnership Program Director
What is community well being? What social and cultural factors maintain and distribute public health? How do we identify and respond to cultural, political, and economic causes of community health problems? Students will study 16 social factors in community health (as developed by the Fordham Institute for Innovation in Social Policy) in order to explore how social communities in the Hampton Roads area create and sustain physical, mental, and social well being. In cooperation with community and health agencies, schools, and churches in Williamsburg and Norfolk, Virginia, students will develop projects that meaningfully connect social factors to community health. Basic concepts and practices in public health, such as epidemiology, medicine and education, health care access and delivery, and prevention programming, are also some of the areas students will examine in this course.
Faculty Profiles
Jonathan Arries, Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, Sharpe Professor of Civic Renewal
Jonathan Arries has been at the college since 1995. He received his BA from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire and his MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In addition to his freshman seminar, Cultural Perspectives of U.S. Hispanics, Professor Arries teaches elementary and intermediate Spanish; Cultural Perspectives: The U.S. and the Spanish-Speaking World: Sound, Meaning and Identify, Spanish Text Translation; a graduate seminar for foreign language teachers; and a practicum on interpretation and translations in the health professions.