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Course Schedule - Summer Semester 2025
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MDHM 260 701 (CRN: 31884)
CREATIVE WRITING FOR MED HUM
Long Title: TOPICS IN CREATIVE WRITING FOR MEDICAL HUMANITIES: WRITING AND READING (NEAR) DEATH EXPERIENCES
Department: Medical Humanities
Instructor: Hammon, Cameron
Meeting: (12-MAY-2025 - 30-MAY-2025)
Part of Term: Summer Paris 1
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Must not belong to one of the following Cohort(s):
Fall 2025 UG New First Time
Fall 2025 New UG Transfer
Section Max Enrollment: 0 (permission required)
Section Enrolled: 14
Enrollment data as of: 16-DEC-2025 12:06AM
Final Exam: No Final Exam
Description: “I learned a lot of things in medical school. Mortality wasn’t one of them.” So begins Atul Gawande’s bestselling memoir about the challenges of end-of-life medicine in a culture obsessed with avoiding death at all costs. How do we talk, write, and think about the Gordian knot near death experiences create —increasingly common as lifesaving technologies rapidly advance? In this course, students will read literary writing on the subject of death and its attendant challenges, and well as learn to write creatively and concisely about it — in their own lives and in the experiences of others. Students will learn directly from writers, physicians, and historians during in-class visits and gain valuable skills as communicators, to enhance their future endeavors as students and health care professionals. Repeatable for Credit.