PH 130 - Health Humanities

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-C2
Introduction to the role of the humanities in health. Exploration of the importance of humanities in developing empathy, observation, and self-reflection skills necessary in health care. Human experience of illness will be explored.

Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-C2 - Lower Division Humanities
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Describe the ways in which experiences of health and illness are individual, social, and political using critical concepts in the health humanities.
Summarize and interpret texts (including literature, film, visual art, and academic writing) in order to analyze personal and cultural narratives and beliefs about health and illness.
Describe the role of history and culture in defining health and illness, including the ways that racist, sexist, ableist, and otherwise oppressive ideologies have shaped those definitions, and how marginalized groups have resisted them.
Discuss how climate change, the Anthropocene, and environmental racism and justice are explored in the humanities in relation to health.

C2. Humanities Learning Outcomes

Show appreciation for the humanities using their intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity;
develop their affective and cognitive faculties through studying great works reflecting the rich diversity of human imagination and/or inquiry; and
engage in critical self-reflection relating themes in the humanities to the students’ own lives.