Health and Illness Narratives

Catalog description

This course is designed to help students better understand how conceptions of health, illness, and resilience are socially constructed and to improve advocacy skills through narrative. Specifically, this course examines the narrative construction of healing and resilience across a variety of contexts. Students will learn how to create, analyze, and educate through narratives as a way of making sense of various life-altering experiences, including illness, stigma, failure, recovery, caregiving, and death and dying. Prerequisite: None. (Offered every spring term). Credit; 4