HH 101 Introduction to Health Humanities
This interdisciplinary course introduces students to the field of health humanities, which applies the humanistic disciplines of literature and languages, philosophy, religion, anthropology, history, and the arts to the study of the body, health, illness, and disability. Students will learn techniques of literary, cultural, and historical analysis, as well as religious and ethical debates in the growing field of health humanities and narrative medicine. Critical reflection about the human experience in relation to health is the cornerstone of the course. The course will serve as the basis for the minor in health humanities, and as a course in the LAE, Humanistic Inquiry and Social and Global Awareness.
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