Spring 2027

Sociology of Health and Medicine

Sociology of Health and Medicine examines social, cultural, and structural factors shaping health definitions, disparate outcomes, and healthcare organization.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Kelly Ward

Summary

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Past student reviews · Frankie Frank

The review did not provide specific details regarding workload or exam difficulty, only noting that the instructor was hard-working and cared about student well-being.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Understand how concepts such as “disease” and “health” are socially constructed.

  • Identify and describe how social contexts (e.g. race and gender) shape health outcomes and structure disparities.

  • Identify the social and cultural shifts in medicine and healthcare.

  • Critically analyze their own experiences with health, illness, and medicine using course material.

  • Demonstrate understanding and engagement with course material and produce thoughtful and compelling arguments in assigned work.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

Grade history

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Prerequisites

Course map

Sophomore standing

  • Sophomore standing
C&ESOC/SOC 343

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  • Sophomore standing

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 3.88 GPA, 92.1% A/AB (n=38 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=37 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

KELLY WARD is recorded teaching in Fall 2022, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Frankie Frank

Students found the course highly relevant and interesting, noting that the instructor used storytelling to facilitate learning. The review highlighted a strong focus on student well-being and a hard-working teaching style.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.76 GPA, 94.3% A/AB (n=35 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.93 GPA, 96.4% A/AB (n=28 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=37 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Frankie Frank

The review did not provide specific details regarding workload or exam difficulty, only noting that the instructor was hard-working and cared about student well-being.

Past student reviews · Frankie Frank

A past student described the class as the most relevant and interesting they took at UW, praising the instructor's engaging stories and genuine care for students.

Topics

  • Social, cultural, and structural factors in health and illness
  • Social construction of disease and health
  • How social contexts like race and gender shape health disparities
  • Social and cultural shifts in medicine and healthcare

Skills

  • Analyze how social, cultural, and structural factors shape health definitions, disparities, and healthcare organization.
  • Produce thoughtful and compelling arguments in assigned work using course material.

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records
C&ESOC/SOC 343 · Spring 2027

Sociology of Health and Medicine

Recorded 2026-10-14
C&ESOC/SOC 343 · Spring 2027

Sociology of Health and Medicine

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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