Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: MEDICAL HUMANITIES

Department: First-Year Writing Intensive

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will consider how literature and art such as fiction, poetry, film, painting, and sculpture critique and expand the boundaries of contemporary medicine. Topics of particular concern may include medical uncertainty, definitions of health and normality, the communication of illness, and the relationship between technology and the body.