Demonstrate the ability to recognize and generate the types of questions that various kinds of social scientists ask about health, healing and health care, including questions related to social determinants of health.
Apply critical thinking skills to effectively identify and analyze important issues related to social, cultural, geospatial, political, and/or economic dimensions of health, healing, and health care.
Effectively acquire, comprehend, and evaluate information relevant to questions about the variety of ways in which human health, healing, and health care are defined, perceived, constructed, and enacted.
Effectively acquire, comprehend, and evaluate information relevant to questions about the variety of ways in which access to health and health care are distributed, within and across populations.
Demonstrate the ability to communicate clearly and effectively in genre-appropriate ways about issues related to health, healing, and health care in interdisciplinary perspective.
Detect and deconstruct the ways in which knowledge, including scientific and clinical knowledge, is shaped by different perspectives, values, priorities, identities, cultural frameworks, social conventions, scientific paradigms, and/or social, political, and financial interests.
Demonstrate the ability to conceive of and communicate about multiple ways in which their HSOC education could be ethically and effectively applied to contribute to needs and priorities identified by the members of specific communities in the spirit of partnership and cultural humility.
