LITERATURE AND MEDICINE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Literature Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify some of the ways literature addresses medical concepts and practices, including health, illness, dying and disability. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify ways that literature can serve as a resource for patients and healthcare practitioners. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify and apply methods and approaches for analysis of literary and cultural texts to demonstrate literature's contemporary and historical relevance. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Analyze relationships among society, literature, and language that underlie the construction of beliefs. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify some of the ways literature addresses medical concepts and practices, including health, illness, dying and disability. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify ways that literature can serve as a resource for patients and healthcare practitioners. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify and apply methods and approaches for analysis of literary and cultural texts to demonstrate literature's contemporary and historical relevance. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Analyze relationships among society, literature, and language that underlie the construction of beliefs. Audience: Undergraduate