NURS 4120 - Promoting Cultural Humility to Reduce LGBTQIA2S+ Health Disparities

3 unit(s)

(Same as GEND 4120) An historical analysis of the dominant systems and intersectional factors influencing LGBTQIA2S+ health disparities. Emphasizes cultural humility as an approach to reducing the effects of stigma, discrimination, and exploitation of LGBTQIA2S+ people.

Satisfies G.E. area UD-4 and the Sociocultural Inquiry Requirement.

Course Learning Outcomes List
Students will be able to:

Describe the roles of history, power, privilege, oppression, and structural inequality in producing LGBTQIA2S+ health disparities in the US and globally (GEND PLO2, NURS PLO 8);
Examine how cultural meanings about gender, sex, and sexuality are produced and circulated and the influence on law, medicine, psychology/psychiatry, media, and societal attitudes (GEND PLO2, NURS PLO #4);
Assess the various ways LGBTQIA2S+ populations have been recognized/addressed, stigmatized, discriminated against, and exploited (GEND PLO 2, NURS PLO 8);
Employ cultural humility in individual and community interactions in clinical, research and public health settings (NURS PLO 11);
Describe ways in which social, behavioral, environmental, and biological factors contribute to specific disparities among LGBTQIA2S+ individuals and communities (GEND PLO #2 & #3, NURS PLO 8);
Practice principles of cultural humility by self-reflecting on personal biases (explicit and implicit), assumptions, ethical values, and privileges that adversely impact LGBTQIA2S+ interactions (GEND PLO #3, NURS PLO #11); and,
Demonstrate awareness of specific illnesses and disorders affecting LGBTQIA2S+ communities and lifestyles, such as HIV/AIDS, gender transitioning technologies, suicide and addiction intervention, neurodiversity, etc, and of barriers to care (NURS PLO 4 & 8).

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