CS1043 — Digital Justice in Healthcare
This course delves into the complex intersections of racism, technology, healthcare, aging, and global environmental challenges, with a focus on understanding and addressing how systemic racial inequities manifest across these domains. Through interdisciplinary modules, students will critically examine the ways in which structural racism is embedded in technological development, healthcare practices, environmental policies, and the lived experiences of aging populations—particularly within marginalized communities of color. Students will engage with case studies and theoretical frameworks that reveal how technology both reinforces and challenges racial inequities. Key topics include racial biases in healthcare technologies, the disproportionate environmental burdens faced by communities of color (environmental racism), the intersection of race and aging in an increasingly digital world, and the ways climate change exacerbates global health disparities along racial lines. The course will equip students with analytical tools to understand these issues from historical, socio-cultural, institutional, and structural perspectives, empowering them to advocate for anti-racist, equitable solutions. By the end of the course, students will be prepared to critically engage with these interconnected challenges and contribute to dismantling systemic racism in their fields.