Seminar in Medical and Health Humanities

Catalog description

This course is designed to facilitate independent intellectual engagement with medical/health 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/health humanities and related programming. Students will design and choose a series of medical/health humanities events to attend. With permission of the instructor, students will attend multiple events and write a reflection paper on each event. Students will additionally complete readings and respond in discussion forums, conduct further research on a topic and present to their peers, and prepare a project for an external audience such as a written piece submitted for publication. At the conclusion of the course, students will have interacted with multiple disciplines, scholars, institutions and approaches in medical/health humanities.