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Course Offerings

For up-to-the-minute course listings, including enrollment information, see The Office of the Registrar.

New for the Fall 2012 Semester:

Undergraduate Courses

Literature of Addiction (MHHS-M 492) This course explores the ways in which, through literature, certain understandings of addiction are constructed, represented, and proliferated throughout our culture.  The class will explore the ways in which the concept of addiction is represented in various cultural forms and in specific texts.  Additionally, the course will look closely at the relationship between the idea of addiction and other categories such as gender, sexuality, normalcy, and creativity.

Also offered for the Fall 2012 Semester:

Perspectives in Health, Disease, and Healing (MHHS-M 301)  Click here to see a sample syllabus.

Introduction to Research Ethics (MHHS-M 504)

 

Graduate Courses

Literature of Addiction (MHHS M-592) See course description above.

 

Click to download the PDF of the Fall 2012 MHHS and MHHS-related course listings.

 

New for the Spring 2012 Semester:

Undergraduate

Introduction to Health Studies and Medical Humanities (MHHS-M 201) This course will examine a range of medical humanities and health studies issues, included illness & health, birth & death, body & self, and health care access. Incorporating perspectives from history, literature, anthropology, philosophy, and sociology, students will learn about medicine and health from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. This course satisfies either an Arts & Humanities or Social Sciences Liberal Arts distribution requirement.

History of Chinese Medicine (Hist H-421) This course will explore the diverse history of the medical traditions of China before, during and after contact with Western biomedicine, from antiquity to the twentieth century.  Click here to view a syllabus.

Culture of Mental Illness (MHHS-M 492) This course explores the ways in which certain understandings of mental illness are constructed, represented, and proliferated throughout our culture, by examining text and film.  We will consider how we as individuals and as a society are affected by different representations of mental illness, and how this translates into everyday interaction with others.  Click here to see the syllabus.

 

Graduate

History of Chinese Medicine (Hist H-521) See description above

Culture of Mental Illness (MHHS M-592) See description above

 

Also offered for the Spring 2012 Semester (undergraduate):

Perspectives in Health, Disease, and Healing (MHHS-M 301).  See above listing for M301 for the syllabus.

Capstone Seminar in Medical Humanities & Health Studies (MHHS-M 495) Definition and importance of professionalism in health care.

 

Click to download the PDF of Spring 2012 Course listings.