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Carol Holdt,Senior Instructor, M.S. Portland State University, 1999.
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| Courses: Introduction to Sociology; Marriage and Intimacy; Minorities; Youth in Transition capstone.
Projects: Community-based learning course working with Springdale and Tongue Point Job Corps staff and students; development and use of multimedia in online and correspondence courses in sociology; coordinator of online sociology instruction; development of strategies and tools to assess sociology student learning objectives |
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Olivia Thomas, Interim Director, Center for Health and Social Inequality Research (CSHIR) and Assistant Professor (also Program Planning and Grants Director)
M.S.W. University of Kentucky 1981, DC Western States 1989
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Interests: Mind-body approaches in health care, health behavior, alternative, complementary and integrative medicine, stress, health disparities and rural sociology.
Current Projects: Advancing and providing oversight for the Department’s externally funded research; enhancing and building research partnerships; developing and teaching the course, the Sociology of Integrative Medicine; and working to fund and implement a project in Coos and Douglas counties to determine causes and solutions for asthma disparities through community-based participatory research with Coos County Public Health, Douglas County Public Health, the Oregon Asthma Program, the AHRQ Oregon Asthma Learning Partnership Coalition and Matthew Carlson.
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