Illness Narratives, Innovation course

Catalog description

This course uses narrative medicine as a lens to understand the shifting definitions of illness and health and how they manifest in our personal and social lives. We’ll consider how meaning in medicine is made through storytelling, the different types of stories told, and how those stories engage with the larger world we live in. We will read a variety of creative nonfiction texts, as well as consider how these stories might be told off the page in other art forms. By the end of the semester, students should be able to identify, analyze, and produce a variety of narratives in medicine. Satisfies English major and minor requirement. Satisfies Public Health major and minor requirement. Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.