Gayle Tang - Advancing Language Justice for Health

HLTH 91J

Advancing Language Justice for Health

Course Information

HLTH 91J is a 1.0-unit course. Linguistic, cultural, and systemic barriers impede the health of individuals and can be costly to society at large. This course provides skills and strategies to advance language justice and equip monolingual and multilingual health workers to work cross-culturally by providing services that are culturally and linguistically appropriate, and through advocacy that promotes systemic changes, empowering self and clients.

This course will be offered online via Zoom videoconferencing.

Important Dates

See the Instructional Calendar for other important dates

Course Syllabus

Course Syllabus (Available on Canvas)

Representative Textbooks and Other Instructional Materials. All materials will be provided by the instructor.

- - L. Shi and D. Singh. 2023. Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System, 6th Edition. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
  - H. Alim, J. Rickford, and A. Ball. 2020. Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race. Oxford University Press.
  - Other instructional materials such as PowerPoint presentations and articles will be provided by the instructor.
  - Website: How To Build Language Justice
  - Website: What Did They Say? Interpreting for Social Justice
  - Website: Non-English speakers struggle to file coronavirus unemployment claims
  - Website: Hospitals Have Left Many COVID-19 Patients Who Don’t Speak English Alone, Confused and Without Proper Care.
  - Website: Antena Los Ángeles resources for facilitators and organizers building multilingual space and for interpreters working (on-site and remotely) within the language justice framework
  - Website: Center for Participatory Change
  - Website: Interpretation and Translation: Power Tools for Sharing Power in Grassroots Leadership Development