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HUM 2010 - Introduction to Medical & Health Humanities

This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of medical humanities. The field thinks critically about different aspects of health, including the values, experiences, and practices of patients and clinicians historically and today. Students engage with creative and popular representations of health, disease, and dying as well as questions of ethics and money and power in healthcare. Material introduces how clinicians integrate narrative and the humanities in their practice. This course is beneficial for students studying health or medicine and also those wanting to engage health as a field of academic or creative inquiry.

Requisites: ENG 1510 or 1610
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Course Transferability: OTM course: TMAH Arts & Humanities
College Credit Plus: Level 1
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to employ principles, terminology, and methods from disciplines in the humanities and apply them to major issues in the medical and health humanities.
  • Students will be able to analyze, interpret, and/or evaluate creative, historical, and philosophical works that consider major issues in medical and health humanities.
  • Students will be able to describe creative processes involved in producing works of critical thought and/or the human imagination concerning issues in medical and health humanities and recognize connections between those processes and existing works.
  • Students will be able to explain relationships among cultural and/or historical contexts and the medical and health humanities.
  • Students will be able to communicate concepts and evidence related to humanistic inquiry concerning issues in medicine and health.
  • Students will be able to synthesize interdisciplinary humanities perspectives (such as artistic, cultural, historical, literary, ethical, religious, and rhetorical) on major issues in medicine and health care.
  • Students will be able to explain how clinicians integrate narrative and the humanities in their practice.
  • Students will be able to analyze ethical and moral problems related to medicine, health, and technologically mediated care individually and in teams.


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