Global Classroom in Health Humanities and Geographies.

Catalog description

This selective is a paradigm-shifting, transnational, trans-institutional and transdisciplinary exploration of pressing, contemporary concerns in health humanities and geographies, delivered through transformative and innovative sensorially rich methods, both digital and in person. You will have an unprecedented opportunity to engage with other students from across global partner organizations, including the University of Exeter (UK) and the University of British Colombia Okanagan, exploring and sharing disciplinary and cultural differences in relation to concepts of health, care, wellbeing, ableism and disability, shame, 'madness' and embodiment. Students will attend international classes on a custom-built immersive digital campus. The virtual campus will be both a learning space and a space of research praxis, enabling a critical interrogation of some of the core intellectual questions at the heart of the module: what does it mean to be a well/sick body; how do social and interpersonal and affective networks inform health and our embodied sense of self; what are the complex relationships between spatial configurations and experiences of disability and (mental) estrangement; what are the different cultural expressions and epistemologies that comprise global health? The course comprises 11 90-min online workshops/lectures, delivered by interdisciplinary faculty from the different international partners. There will be additional asynchronous individual and small-group assignments. This course is not offered each year. Course Director: Dr. Will Bynum. Permission of the instructor is required. Enrollment Max:15 Min: None. Credit: 2 (Selective) Grading Basis Pass /Fail.