UT Dallas 2024 Undergraduate Catalog

SOC4371 - Mental Health and Illness

SOC 4371 Mental Health and Illness (3 semester credit hours) An overview of how society has identified and treated mental illness over time and in different cultures. Topics include causes and cures, social determinants and mental health, history of societal responses to mental illness, including public policies, and how mental illness is represented in media. (3-0) R