GSS3232
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STRESS, HEALTH, AND DISEASE
General Social & Behav Sci-GSSSocial and Behavioral Sciences
Course Description
This course will introduce students to the role stress plays in health and disease. Topics covered include defining and measuring stress, coping with stress, applying the biopsychosocial model of health to the relationship between stress and disease (e.g., cardiovascular disease, cancer, infectious illness), the pathophysiology of stress, stress associated with racism, and current issues and controversies in stress research.
Course Attributes
Integrative Health, R2-Racism Across Curriculum
Units
4


