Do you need a one-credit elective?<\/p>\n
Are you interested in community organizing and health equity?<\/p>\n
Do you care about farmworker justice and health?<\/p>\n
This winter, there will be two courses offered to all health sciences students that focus on health equity, social justice, and
\ncommunity based learning and action: the common book course, UCONJ 532, and health equity and community organizing, UCONJ 624. Please
\nread below:<\/p>\n
UCONJ 523: Making Science Public: Improving Farmworker Health through Community-Engaged Research and Storytelling<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s common book Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies by Seth Holmes, opens up important discussions on topics like structural violence,
\nfarmworker justice, and how we can participate in proactive responses that improve farmworker health. Through this course, health
\nscience students will engage in collaborative community-based projects that will reduce the harm of groundwater toxins, which is an
\nongoing issue facing communities in the Yakima Valley. This course meets six Monday evenings over the course of the quarter
\n(5:30-7:20) and will include a day-trip to Yakima (TBD). This visit to Yakima will include a tour of a Confined Animal Feeding
\nOperation (a major source of groundwater contamination) and an opportunity to meet local community activists who are working on this
\nissue. Email Kelsen Caldwell caldweka@uw.edu for more information or to request an add code.<\/p>\n
UCONJ 624: Health Equity and Community Organizing<\/p>\n
The second course, health equity and community organizing (UCONJ 624) will be taught in collaboration with Sound Alliance and will help
\nstudents to learn the skills to develop effective, winnable community organizing campaigns that produce greater health equity. The
\ngoal of this course is for students to be able to work upstream to address the social determinants of health\u2014so we don\u2019t have to keep
\ndoing direct service and charity forever without ever addressing the reason why needs exist in the first place. The course meets
\nThursdays (from 5:30-7:20) and the bulk of the coursework is oriented toward actually getting involved in a Health Equity Circle
\ncampaign so you can apply your new skills and frameworks. If you\u2019re interested, you can email David Fernando somserve@uw.edu for more
\ninformation or to request an add code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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