TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
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COURSES TAUGHT
MAS 150B1: Sex and AIDS and the 21st Century
Instructor: Antonio Estrada, PhD | Teaching Assistant: Fall 2015, 2016
As we enter the third decade of the HIV/AIDS epidemic there is still no cure. This course examines the history of HIV/AIDS in the United States, its origins, and risk factors for transmission and acquisition. The course will also explore sexuality and drug use and its association with HIV disease. Health promotion programs targeted to various at-risk groups will also be discussed.
Instructor: Antonio Estrada, PhD | Teaching Assistant: Fall 2015, 2016
As we enter the third decade of the HIV/AIDS epidemic there is still no cure. This course examines the history of HIV/AIDS in the United States, its origins, and risk factors for transmission and acquisition. The course will also explore sexuality and drug use and its association with HIV disease. Health promotion programs targeted to various at-risk groups will also be discussed.
MAS 160A1: American Indian Health & Wellness
Instructor: Antonio Estrada, PhD | Teaching Assistant: Spring 2016
Instructor: Patrisia Gonzales, PhD | Teaching Assistant: Fall 2013 (preceptor), Spring 2017
This course is an overview of historic and contemporary ways that American Indians approach healing, illness and wellbeing. In traditional Native American healing, wellness and illness and result from conditions created by equilibrium/imbalance among individuals, kin, social order and the natural world. We will examine some shared values regarding health and illness (such as illness expressing an imbalance) as well as tribal specific methods of healing and American Indian traditional medicine.
Instructor: Antonio Estrada, PhD | Teaching Assistant: Spring 2016
Instructor: Patrisia Gonzales, PhD | Teaching Assistant: Fall 2013 (preceptor), Spring 2017
This course is an overview of historic and contemporary ways that American Indians approach healing, illness and wellbeing. In traditional Native American healing, wellness and illness and result from conditions created by equilibrium/imbalance among individuals, kin, social order and the natural world. We will examine some shared values regarding health and illness (such as illness expressing an imbalance) as well as tribal specific methods of healing and American Indian traditional medicine.
MAS 435/535: Mexican Traditional Medicine [Hybrid Course]
Instructor: Patrisia Gonzales, PhD | Preceptor: Spring 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
This interdisciplinary course is a survey of various popular and Indigenous medicinal systems that fall under the rubric known as Mexican Traditional Medicine (MTM). Mexican scholar Carlos Viesca Treviño defines MTM as medicinal knowledge(s) that emanate from Mesoamerican world views and that have adapted to historical and social conditions in the Americas. This course will explore various expressions of MTM, with a special emphasis on Indigenous medicinal approaches to healing that exemplify both continuities and adaptations. We will compare across cultures some shared values in various Indigenous systems as well as how they are uniquely expressed in contemporary settings.
Instructor: Patrisia Gonzales, PhD | Preceptor: Spring 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
This interdisciplinary course is a survey of various popular and Indigenous medicinal systems that fall under the rubric known as Mexican Traditional Medicine (MTM). Mexican scholar Carlos Viesca Treviño defines MTM as medicinal knowledge(s) that emanate from Mesoamerican world views and that have adapted to historical and social conditions in the Americas. This course will explore various expressions of MTM, with a special emphasis on Indigenous medicinal approaches to healing that exemplify both continuities and adaptations. We will compare across cultures some shared values in various Indigenous systems as well as how they are uniquely expressed in contemporary settings.