Psychology 140 - Health Psychology

This course provides a broad overview of the field of health psychology using foundational concepts, theories, methods, and applications. With a critical lens, the course examines "state-of-the-art" research and current gaps in knowledge to explore issues including conceptualizations of health and illness, stress and coping, and health behaviors. The course focuses on how health is constituted by and interacts with its multiple contexts, particularly social and environmental ones. Enrollment limited to 60.