TOPICS IN HEALTH AND THE HUMANITIES
Introduces key concepts, methods, and debates in the interdisciplinary field of Health Humanities. Explores medicine and healthcare through diverse lenses (including literature, history, cultural studies, and philosophy), and examines the perspectives of patients, practitioners, institutions, and cultural communities. Encourages critical reflection on issues like everyday experience, the good life, human dignity, and structural inequalities at the intersection of health and the humanities. Reflect on different methods and fields of study (such as literature, history, and religion) used in Health Humanities to explore questions and problems about illness and wellbeing.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Reflect on different methods and fields of study (including literature, history, and religion) used in Health Humanities to explore questions and problems about illness and wellbeing. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Explore cross-cultural medical traditions and histories of healing and views about health and illness. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Consider the multi-sided impacts and experiences of illness on people's everyday lives, including and beyond the physio-biological, such as the social, legal, and emotional impacts, and examine ways that different medical traditions offer practices and communities of care and healing to address them. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Reflect on different methods and fields of study (including literature, history, and religion) used in Health Humanities to explore questions and problems about illness and wellbeing. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Explore cross-cultural medical traditions and histories of healing and views about health and illness. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Consider the multi-sided impacts and experiences of illness on people's everyday lives, including and beyond the physio-biological, such as the social, legal, and emotional impacts, and examine ways that different medical traditions offer practices and communities of care and healing to address them. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027