COURSE MATERIALS
- Activity: Health Equity Quiz [complete]
- Lecture: 2.1 Ecology and Adaptation [watch] [download]
- PDF: McElroy – Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives [read]
- Lecture: 2.2 Race and Medicine [watch] [download]
- Clip: Eugenicist Movement In America [watch]
- PDF: Gravlee – How Race Becomes Biology: Embodiment of Social Inequality [read]
- Clip: Race and the New Biocitizen [watch]
Select 3 of the following episodes to watch and if available, read through the corresponding case studies linked here [link]
- Film: Unnatural Causes 1 – “In Sickness and in Wealth” [watch]
- Film: Unnatural Causes 2 – “When the Bough Breaks” [watch]
- Film: Unnatural Causes 3 – “Becoming American” [watch]
- Film: Unnatural Causes 4 – “Bad Sugar” [watch]
- Film: Unnatural Causes 5 – “Place Matters” [watch]
- Film: Unnatural Causes 6 – “Collateral Damage” [watch]
- Film: Unnatural Causes 7 – “Not Just a Paycheck” [watch]
ASSIGNMENTS
- Reflection Post: W2 Reflection Prompt [link] – due 7/11
- Activity Post: W2 Activity Prompt [link] – due 7/11
- Comments: Due 7/13
- Weebly Post: Share the link to your Weebly in a separate post with the category “weebly link” [link]- due 7/11
- Weebly: Work on the Ecological/Biological Approach Page of your Weebly [link]
Have a question about this week’s materials? “Leave a reply” below and lets help each other out!
Hey, how do you make a gravatar? I can’t seem to find the link anywhere on the profile page!
Also, will the health equity quiz counted be for a grade?
Natasha,
Here is the link for the gravatar: https://en.gravatar.com/
Make sure you use your MSU email address, because that will link with your WordPress account. Let me know if you have any more issues with setting up your gravatar.
The health equity quiz will not be counted for a grade, you should complete it as a part of your course materials for the week.
Same! I do no know how to make a gravatar and I was wondering if someone could help
Natasha, Krystn – have you looked at Nikki’s explanation above? If you still need help, make sure you email one of us to get help…
Same question – the password I am using for this wordpress site does not work, yet it says to use your wordpress login information
Danyelle – don’t use your username and password from class. You have to create a brand new gravatar account by clicking the blue button on the middle right if the page. When you sign up, use your msu email and whatever password you want.
Hello!
Just wondering, is there a way to view grades?
Hi Sarah – yes there is a grade book on D2L. See the announcement page and grading page for more info
Do we need to post our grade from the quiz anywhere? or is it tracked via the website automatically?
Chris, your score on the health equity quiz and the information from it are incorporated in your activity post for Week 2
For this week’s weebly, are we evaluating the ecological/biological approach as one approach then, or as two separate approaches? Writing my essay, I feel awkward about using the terms lucidly because to me they represent two different approaches.
Hi Morgan – great question! While there is overlap among all of the approaches we will talk about in this course, the ecological approach is certainly different from the biological approach in many key ways. For that reason, it definitely make sense to talk about them individually. If this was a 7 week course, I would have given them each their own week!
Oh okay, thank you! So each approach should have its own 400 word essay?
Hi Morgan – Another good question. No, you can do a combined 400 words for that particular page. You are always welcome to write more if you feel so inclined.
I was wondering how to go about “in line citations” in the weebly. I understand that at the end of the essay we should have citations, but since it isn’t like a word document and doesn’t have different pages, where do the inline citations go!
Thanks!
Colleen – the inline citations will go after the appropriate sentence or paragraph the same way you would do it in a word document. There are parenthetical references, NOT footnotes – e.g. “(Karim 2014: 24)”
two quick questions, first do we have to make a gravatar? and secondly, I am trying to add my second image to my weekly account and it won’t allow me to. I watched the tutorials and they did not cover this. Any advice?
Hi Shelby – yes you have to make a gravatar. You don’t have to use your own picture – it can be a picture of your dog or a flower or something. It’s to give yourself some sort of identity amongst the sea of students in this class. Regarding your weebly question – I am not sure what you are asking. I would suggesting googling your question and/or sending Nikki an email with specifics about your question. Also, if there is another student here who can help, feel free to jump in!