Course ID
039224
Course Description
This graduate seminar represents an overview of the core topics in health psychology. The course emphasizes the biopsychosocial model of understanding health and illness. Through class lectures, readings, and discussions, students will learn how characteristics of persons (e.g., personality, behavior, coping, biological reactivity) and their environments (e.g., stress, social support, poverty) influence health outcomes at the individual and population level. Health psychology is a large, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and somewhat fragmented field, so the course will be selective in its coverage. Through course assignments students will have an opportunity to learn about research and theory within the field that is more tailored to personal interests.
The course is organized into 3 principle domains: 1) Health behaviors, disease risk, and prevention, 2) Stress and physiological pathways, and 3) Adjustment to illness and disease.
The course is organized into 3 principle domains: 1) Health behaviors, disease risk, and prevention, 2) Stress and physiological pathways, and 3) Adjustment to illness and disease.
Min Units
3
Max Units
3
Repeatable for Credit
No
Grading Basis
GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E
Career
Graduate
Course Requisites
May be convened with
Component
Lecture
Optional Component
No