HH393 Health Narratives

3 credit(s)

This course promotes skills and explores issues central to experiences of health by undertaking literary investigations of health-oriented narratives (including fiction, poetry, and memoir). Students will develop their ability to comprehend and to analyze (in other words to listen); they will examine these narratives from multiple perspectives (as health experiences involve multiple parties and views); they will consider what “health” and “healthy” mean and how such concepts are determined; and they will advance their communication skills through oral and written practice. In keeping with a humanities emphasis and the university’s Lasallian, Catholic mission, the course’s approach is in turn designed to allow for the cultivation of sympathy and empathy as well as self-reflection for the sake of humane health experiences in the lives of students and those with whom they will interact. Also offered as E393.

Winona Campus

Twin Cities Campus

Rochester Locations

Online

HH393 Health Narratives