ENGLIT 0648 - NARRATIVE AND GRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES IN HEALTH HUMANITIES

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description This course emphasizes the narrating and understanding of difference as central to the education of those engaged in/with the healthcare field. Students will examine how narratives of neuro-diversity; gender barriers; racial inequities in education and health services, are all crucial issues for providers and receivers of medical care. By studying literature about medicine/the health professions from diverse perspectives, students in the course will learn to "observe, parse, appreciate, critique, and creatively reimagine points of contact between individuals in healthcare sphere." Through a series of readings including Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air; and a mixed-media biography such as Lauren Redniss's Radioactive; Damon Tweedy's Black Man in a White Coat; Danielle Ofri's What Patient Say, What Doctors Hear; and the Graphic Medicine Manifesto, this course will introduce students to an exciting new field that erases the boundaries between authoritative "medical discourse" and what is commonly assumed to be a non-serious genre, graphic novel/comics; between physicians and patients' modes of accessing information and exchanging knowledge; between academic "essays" and Critical Creative Work that engages rigorously with knowledge and experience. Through this series of readings, students will consider issues such as: What kind of health practitioner do you wish to be? What models exist for asking important questions about the nature of human empathy though knowledge of Other's stories? and how is awareness of identity and difference nurtured in the education of the healthcare providers? How can you begin to articulate or represent your own in rigorous but creative ways?
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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