Fall 2020 Online ANTH 313: GLOBAL HEALTH ISSUES THIS COURSE TAKES PLACE COMPLETELY ONLINE Instructor: Melanie A. Medeiros Email: [email protected] Online Modules: For this course, you will have module assignments due every Tuesday at 3:30pm. Zoom Class Sessions: Almost every Tuesday at 4:00pm we will meet as a class via Zoom. The link to our Zoom meeting will be shared via Canvas. You will be notified via Canvas Announcements when we do not have a Thursday Zoom meeting. Attendance and participation in Zoom class discussions is highly recommended but not required. “Office hours”: Visit the link posted to the Canvas home page to schedule a Zoom appointment with Dr. Medeiros. Her regular meeting times will be Tuesdays 2:00-3:30pm and Thursdays 11:20am- 12:50pm. Teaching Assistant: Gail Cabahug, [email protected] Teaching Assistant Office Hours: Gail will be available for Zoom appointments in place of regular office hours. Please email her directly to schedule an appointment. COURSE DESCRIPTION This course examines the effects of globalization on the health of people around the globe and relates disparities in the spread of preventable diseases and access to basic health services to the growing inequality between rich and poor nations. The course draws from contemporary global health research to explore issues such as the spread of infectious and chronic disease, food and water insecurity, environmental health, and the effects of violence and war on global health. The theoretical perspectives used to analyze these issues draw on the work of critical medical anthropology, ecosocial epidemiology, applied anthropology, and public health. Prerequisites: ANTH 100, or ANTH 101, or ANTH 202. Course Learning Outcomes: • Students will demonstrate specialized knowledge of health issues facing diverse people globally, through weekly discussion question response essays, online discussions, writing a book review, and writing a final paper. • Students will demonstrate critical thinking and written communication skills as they analyze and evaluate studies of health-related issues through weekly discussion question response essays, online discussions, writing a book review, and writing a final paper. • Students will demonstrate integrative inquiry, the application of concepts and methods learned in the course, and informational and digital literacy by writing a final paper. Sociomedical Sciences Program Learning Outcomes Satisfied • Concepts and Principles. Students will demonstrate understanding of concepts and theoretical principles central to the sociomedical sciences. • Critical Thinking & Application: Students will demonstrate critical thinking, written communication skills, and be able to read, understand, and synthesize—in writing and speech—published scholarship in allied subfields of sociomedical sciences, including medical 1 Fall 2020 Online anthropology, medical sociology, public health, epidemiology, biology, geography, psychology, and political science. • Field Research Methods, Data Analysis & Oral Presentation: Students will be able to design and implement an independent research project, employing interdisciplinary research and data analysis methods to examine an issue or topic related to health and medicine. Anthropology Program Learning Outcomes Satisfied • Students will demonstrate mastery over content pertaining to human cultural and biological diversity using appropriate evidence, conventions, and critical terminology. • Students will demonstrate competency using the research methods pertaining to at least one of the four fields of anthropology in the collection and analysis of anthropological data. • Students will demonstrate competency in their ability to search and evaluate scholarly anthropological research materials. • Students will demonstrate competency in the written presentation of original ideas and supporting materials evaluating anthropological evidence. REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS & FILMS • Singer, M. and P. Erickson. 2013. Global Health: An Anthropological Perspective. ISBN: 9781577669067 • Brown, P.J. and S. Closser. 2018. Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader. ISBN: 9780190647940 • Students are required to purchase or rent one of the global health ethnographies listed under the Book Review assignment below. I recommend you do so ASAP because of delays in delivery times. • There are a couple of instances in which students will have to rent (for under $5) films to stream online via Amazon Prime, You Tube, etc. Links to the streaming sites are found in the modules on Canvas. • All other assigned reading and films are available through Canvas. ASSIGNMENTS Detailed instructions for all these assignments are available on Canvas. Please note, a general rule of thumb for college classes is that you should expect to study about 2-3 hours per week outside class for each unit of credit. Therefore, for a 3 credit online course such as this one, you should spend 10.5 hours (outside of our weekly Zoom discussion) per week completing assignments and studying. Do not wait until the last minute to complete the 10.5 hours of weekly work required for the course. Required Reading & Films The reading and video/film assignments are mandatory. Students should be prepared to discuss these assignments in their discussion posts, in class and in their written assignments. 2 Fall 2020 Online Quizzes, 3% Students will complete three short quizzes to review information in the Course Introduction module, Module 1, and the Final Paper Instructions module. Participation, 7% Your participation grade is evaluated on your participation in the required online discussion boards.. Discussion Question Response (DQR) Essays, 50% You are required to answer 11 weekly discussion questions and upload your response essays (DQRs) to the corresponding Canvas module. See the assignment instructions posted in the Course Introduction Module for DQR instructions and criteria. Except for DQR #1 which is due Thursday, September 3rd at 11:59pm, and DQR #8 which is due Thursday October 29th at 11:59pm, your DQR essays and posts are due by 3:30pm on Tuesdays. Late discussion question response posts are not accepted unless permission to submit a post late is requested by email at least 24 hours before the post is due. Your overall DQR grade will consist of two portions. The first is a basic did-you-or-did-you-not submit your essay every week, did they demonstrate that you did the reading, and did they meet the length requirement (10% of your overall DQR grade). For the second portion of your grade, I will grade your essays four times over the course of the semester (90% of your overall DQR grade). The list of which students are graded closely by me each week is predetermined at the beginning of the semester, which means if you do not submit a DQR and your essay was pre-selected to be graded closely that week, you will receive a zero for an assignment that is worth almost 13% of your final grade. So please make sure to post a DQR every week. As part of your participation grade, you are also required to read your classmates' discussion posts and write brief (~100 word) comments in reply to the questions posted by at least five of your classmates. If you notice that some classmates’ posts have a lot of comments, and others have none, please consider commenting on the posts that have fewer comments. Except for the comments on DQR #1, which are due at 11:59pm on Friday, 9/4, and for the comments on DQR #8, which are due at 11:59pm on Friday 10/30, these DQR comments are due at 3:30pm on Wednesdays. Lastly, you are required to write replies to all of the comments your classmates write in response to your posts. Except for the comment replies on DQR #1, which are due at 11:59pm on Saturday 9/5, and for the replies on DQR #8, which are due at 11:59 on Saturday 10/31, your comment replies are due at 3:30pm on Thursdays. Make sure to review the Netiquette guidelines posted to Canvas before completing your posts. Book Review & Online Discussion [3:30pm on Tues. 10/13], 15% Select a global health ethnography from the list of books below. Read the ethnography and write a Book Review on it. Book review instructions are posted to the Book Review module. In addition to uploading your book review to the Canvas assignment dropbox, you should answer the questions posted to the Book Review Discussion Board for the book that you read by 3:30pm on Tuesday, 10/13. By 3:30pm on Wednesday, 10/14 you should comment on at least 5 of your classmates’ responses to the questions, and by 3:30pm on Thursday, 10/15 you should reply to their comments on your post. 3 Fall 2020 Online 1. Larchanche, Stephanie. 2020. Cultural Anxieties: Managing Migrant Suffering in France. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2. Kierans, Ciara. 2019. Chronic Failures: Kidneys, Regimes of Care, and the Mexican State. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 3. Block, Ellen, and Will McGrath. 2019. Infected Kin: Orphan Care and AIDS in Lesotho. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 4. Reyes-Foster, Beatriz M. 2018. Psychiatric Encounters: Madness and Modernity in Yucatan, Mexico. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 5. Hardin, Jessica. 2018. Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 6. Reed, Joel Christian. 2018. Landscapes of Activism: Civil Society, HIV and AIDS Care in Northern Mozambique. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Final Paper [11:59pm on Tues. 12/8], 30% You will write a 10-12 page (not including the References section; double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, with 1-inch margins) paper on the women’s health issue of your choice. The description and details of this assignment are available in the Final Paper Instructions & How to Conduct a Literature Review module. Consult the Sociomedical Sciences Library Guide to help you with your research: http://libguides.geneseo.edu/sociomedical. In preparation for your final paper, you will upload to Canvas a list of 20 articles you found during your scholarly literature search (due Tues.