HUMH 2000 Humanities Honors Seminar I:Health and Illness

In this seminar, students will explore how humans have experienced, interpreted, and represented disease, illness, health, and wellness in the Early Modern Period through the present in a variety of world cultures. The study of medical humanities is interdisciplinary and includes history, art, literature, and philosophy. Students will investigate the historical and social contexts of illness and health, and the ways that belief systems, tradition, and culture construct our understanding of health and illness, and the meanings we assign to disease, illness, disability, health, and well-being. This course fulfills the Humanities Honors Track seminar requirement. This class fulfills UCC area 2 and is writing intensive.

Honors students only. Prerequisite(s): By permission of the Honors College, Humanities Track director, or instructor.
Credits: 3.0