Seminar in Medicine, Society, and Culture

1.5 Unit

This course is designed to facilitate independent intellectual engagement with medical humanities educational programming occurring within the CWRU School of Medicine, the larger campus community, the surrounding medical, cultural and community institutions, as well as nationally and internationally. CWRU and Cleveland are a major national hub for medical humanities and related programming. Students will design and choose a series of medical humanities events to attend. With permission of the instructor(s), students will attend 10 events and write a reflection paper on each event. At the conclusion of the course, students will have interacted with multiple disciplines, scholars, institutions and approaches in medical humanities. Prereq: MA in Bioethics & Med Humanities students only.