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SOCY 154 - 01   Sociology of Anti-Fat Bias

2025 Spring Quarter

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Career
Undergraduate
Grading
Student Option
Class Number
52754
Type
Lecture
Instruction Mode
Hybrid
Credits
5 units
General Education
 
Status
Open
Available Seats
11
Enrollment Capacity
90
Enrolled
79
Wait List Capacity
999
Wait List Total
0

Description

Examines the ways in which U.S. society pathologizes and marginalizes fat bodies, the impact that structural and social exclusion have on fat people?s lives and health, and possibilities for transforming discourses of anti-fatness in cultural conversations around body size.

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to proposed and declared junior and senior majors and minors in sociology, Latin American and Latino studies/sociology combined, and global and community health.

Class Notes

Class meet in-person on Mondays and Wednesdays. Fridays are remote/asynchronous

Meeting Information

Days & Times Room Instructor Meeting Dates
MW 01:20PM-02:25PM Steven Acad 175 McNamara,M.B. 03/31/25 - 06/06/25
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