ENGL20713
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Literature and Medicine
Department(s)
Long Description (Catalog Description)
This course examines literary works in a variety of genres that treat topics related to health care and medicine. Students will consider ways in which narrative shapes cultural understandings of health, sickness, and the body as well as ways in which literary writers have used health and sickness as metaphors to explore the human condition. Themes may include caregiving, doctor/patient relationships, chronic illness, reproduction, mental illness, infection and contagion, and disability.
Course Typically Offered
Fall
Career
Undergraduate
Catalog Course Attributes
CORE - HUM (Humanities), CORE - LT (Literary Traditions), MDSH - MDSH (Medical Social Health Hum)
Min Units
3
Max Units
3
Repeat for Credit
No
Number Of Repeats
1
Code
LEC
Name
Lecture