Course Offerings

HMS/PHIL/REL/ETH 116-010 Bioethics M,W 10:45 AM-12:00 PM

Professor Schmidt / CRN 43818 / CAMP, HU / 4 credits

 

Professor Kilp / CRN 45059 / CAMP, SS / 4 credits

 

Staff / CRN 45540 / CAMP, HU / 4 credits

 

Professor Lachter / CRN 45400 / CAMP, HU / 4 credits

 

Professor Whitehouse / CRN 45200 / CAMP, SS / 4 credits

 

Staff / CRN 45227 / CAMP, SS / 4 credits

 

Professor Prieto / CRN 43840 / CAMP, HU / 4 credits

 

Professor Marsh / CRN 41256 / HU, SS / 1-4 credits

 

Staff / CRN 45541 / HU, SS / 1-4 credits

 

Professor Marsh / CRN 42051 / HU, SS / 1-8 credits

 

Staff / CRN 45544 / HU, SS / 1-8 credits

 

Professor Marsh / CRN 42052 / HU, SS / 1-8 credits

 

Staff / CRN 45545 / HU, SS / 1-8 credits

 

Professor Servitje / CRN 45245 / CAMP, HU / 4 credits

 

 

HMS.ETH.PHIL.REL 106-010 Bioethics and the Law
M, W 10:45 AM-12:00 PM Professor Davis / CRN 15020 / CAMP, HU / 4 credits

 

HMS.ES.POLS 110-010 Environmental Planning for Healthy Cities
M, W 10:45 AM-12:00 PM Professor Pooley / CRN 12524 / CAMP, SS / 4 credits

 

M, W 12:10 PM-1:25 PM Professor Andrews / CRN 15601 / CAMP, HU / 4 credits

 

HMS.ETH.PHIL.REL 116-010 Bioethics
T, R 3:00 PM-4:15 PM Professor Schmidt / CRN 15246 / CAMP, HU / 4 credits

 

HMS.COMM 150-010 Health Communication
T, R 10:45 AM-12:00 PM Professor Jia / CRN 13564 / CAMP, SS / 4 credits

 

HMS.SOC 160-010 Medicine and Society
M, W 10:45 AM-12:00 PM Professor Noble / CRN 15135 / CAMP, SS / 4 credits
 

HMS 170-010 Medical Humanities
T, R 10:45 AM-12:00 PM Professor Servitje / CRN 12554 / CAMP, HU / 4 credits

 

HMS 180-010 Introduction to Public Health
M, W 9:20 AM-10:35 AM Professor Alang / CRN 11507 / CAMP, SS / 4 credits

**Restricted to HMS majors and minors
 

HMS 221-010 Peer Health Adviser Training
T, R 12:10 PM-1:25 PM Professor Papaz / CRN 12107 / CAMP, SS / 4 credits
 

Professor Marsh / CRN 11319 / NS, SS / 1-4 credits
 

Section 010: Professor Marsh / CRN 12108 / HU, SS / 1-8 credits

Section 011: Staff / CRN 12409 / HU, SS / 1-8 credits
 

Professor Marsh / CRN 12109 / HU, SS / 1-8 credits
 

HMS.SOC 316-010 Social Epidemiology
M, W 1:35 PM-2:50 PM Professor Alang / CRN 14092 / CAMP, SS, WRIT / 4 credits
 

T 7:15 PM-9:55 PM Professor Lomauro / CRN 15164 / CAMP, SS / 4 credits
 

HMS.POLS 354-010 U.S. Health Care Politics
T, R 9:20 AM-10:35 AM Professor Olson / CRN 12266 / CAMP, SS, WRIT / 4 credits

 

HMS 397-010 Grief, Anxiety, & Resilience
M, W 1:35 PM-2:50 PM Professor Burke / CRN 14044 / CAMP, SS / 4 credits

Grief and anxiety are familiar experiences for many people, and for some they can become debilitating. How can we understand the role these experiences play in a person’s life? In this course, we will explore diverse perspectives on grief and anxiety. We will also explore the possibility of being resilient to these experiences, even becoming stronger in the face of adversity. As part of this exploration, we will spotlight the biographies of historical figures who have written about their experiences.
 

HMS 397-011 US Policy and Child Health and Well-being
T, R 1:35 PM-2:50 PM Staff / CRN 14746 / CAMP, HU / 4 credits
U.S. Policy and Child Health and Well-being is a course designed to lead its students into an exploration of how big and little policy influence children’s health and well-being during childhood, adolescence, and into adulthood. This course asks central questions such as who is a child?, how is childhood defined in the context of the United States, who is a citizen, how are rights determined, and is everyone residing in the U.S. truly afforded the rights of liberty and justice for all. This course will utilize the social determinants of health (SDOH) and life course development as guiding theory, centered in a childhood studies perspective, to probe how policy is enacted and how seemingly innocuous policies can have serious ramifications for children’s everyday life and lifetime health and well-being.

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Fall 2021 Course Listing

HMS.ENGL 115-010 Critical Cultures: Health, Medicine and Popular Culture T, R 1210-1325

Professor Andrews / CRN 45012 / CAMP, HU / 4 credits

 

Professor Connolly / CRN 44178 / CAMP, HU / 4 credits

 

Professor Lomauro / CRN 44769 / CAMP, SS / 4 credits

 

Professor Noble / CRN 45062 / CAMP, SS / 4 credits

 

Professor Essien / CRN 45143 / CAMP, HU / 4 credits

 

Professor Coyle / CRN 42121 / RMTS, SS / 4 credits

 

T, R 1335-1450 Professor Steffen / CRN 44765 / CAMP, HU / 4 credits

 

Professor Prieto / CRN 44242 / CAMP, HU / 4 credits

 

Professor Marsh / CRN 41323 / HU, SS / 1-4 credits

 

Professor Marsh / CRN 42183 / HU, SS / 1-8 credits

 

Professor Marsh / CRN 42184 / HU, SS / 1-8 credits

 

Professor Austin / CRN 45066 / CAMP, SS / 4 credits

 

Professor Alang / CRN 45074 / CAMP, SS / 4 credits

 

HMS.PSYC 344-010 Health Care Reasoning and Decision Making T, R 1045-1200
Professor Marsh / CRN 43694 / CAMP, SS / 4 credits

 

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Summer 2021 Course Listing

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Spring 2021 Course Listing

 

Professor Swann / CRN 15120 / REMT / 3 credits

The course will explore the interaction of race, COVID, and society through discussion, internet research, and communication.

 

Professor Davis / CRN 14981 / HU, REMT / 4 credits

This unprecedented epidemic raises many serious ethical problems. What can we expect of healthcare workers? How can we make difficult decisions when more people need ventilators than we have ventilators to go around? How can we balance the pain of a wounded economy with the pain of a health crisis? What are the responsibilities of ordinary citizens to attempt to stay healthy? This class will look at these and other questions while also investigating the underlying ethical theories of justice and fairness. Class evaluation will depend on papers and class participation.

 

Professor Fink / CRN 14818 / NS, REMT / 3 credits

Interdisciplinary course exploring neurobiology of memory and emotion, social identity, and effects of traumatic stress on mental and physical health over the life course. Focus on interactions of social, biological and psychological factors in creating health disparities. Critical feminist analysis of the neurobiology underlying mental health and illness; exploration of how power, hierarchy, and intersectional identity impact the body. Skills gained include critical reading of scientific literature, placement of neurobiology in social and ethical context, and creation of written and illustrated materials to communicate course principles in educational, health-related and artistic settings. Students will employ comics and other arts-based modes of learning.

 

Professor Pooley / CRN 12699 / REMT, SS / 4 credits

 

Professor Najar / CRN 15078 / BUD, CAMP, HU / 4 credits

 

Professor Lomauro / CRN 12412 / REMT, SS / 4 credits

 

Professor Jia / CRN 13812 / REMT, SS / 4 credits

 

Professor Alang / CRN 14933 / RMTA, SS / 4 credits

 

Professor Servitje / CRN 12731 / HU, REMT / 4 credits

 

Professor Essien / CRN 15114 / HU, REMT / 4 credits

 

Professor Reed / CRN 11585 / REMT, SS / 4 credits

 

Professor Papaz / CRN 12239 / REMT, SS / 4 credits

 

Professor Steffen / CRN 14757 / HU, REMT / 4 credits

 

Professor Cook / CRN 14796 / HU, REMT / 4 credits

 

Professor Fink / CRN 14909 / NS, REMT, WRIT / 3 credits

 

Professor Marsh / CRN 11390 / REMT, SS / 1 to 4 credits

 

Professor Marsh / CRN 12240 / HU, REMT, SS / 1 to 8 credits

 

Professor Marsh / CRN 12241 / HU, REMT, SS / 1 to 8 credits

 

Professor Ochs / CRN 14820 / REMT / 4 credits

 

Professor Alang / CRN 14579 / RMTA, SS / 4 credits

 

Professor Pooley / CRN 13398 / REMT, SS / 4 credits

 

Staff / CRN 15467 / REMT, SS / 4 credits

 

Professor Friedman / CRN 12416 / REMT, SS / 4 credits

 

Professor Kilp / CRN 14516 / REMT, SS / 4 credits

 

Professor Olson / CRN 12417 / REMT, SS, WRIT / 4 credits

 

Professor Burke / CRN 14518 / CAMP, SS / 4 credits

Grief and anxiety are familiar experiences for many people, and for some they can become debilitating. How can we understand the role these experiences play in a person’s life? In this course, we will explore diverse perspectives on grief and anxiety. We will also explore the possibility of being resilient to these experiences, even becoming stronger in the face of adversity. As part of this exploration, we will spotlight the biographies of historical figures who have written about their experiences.

 

Professor Perez / CRN 15362 / HU, REMT / 4 credits

What is the meaning of gender, sexuality and disability in the twenty-first century? How are gender, sexuality and disability questioned, constituted and reified in the literature that we read? This course investigates the performance, politics and aesthetics of femininity in Latin American literature and culture in the twenty-first century around questions of family, domesticity, labor, and activism. Reading will engage gender and sexuality, feminism, disability, and the politics of representation, in addition to queer and trans* studies. As such, this course focuses on how the literary works in question employ gender, sexuality and disability to contest dominant societal power structures. To do so, we will engage theoretical writing as well as artistic expression (fiction, film, mass media). Additionally, students will learn the basics of literary analysis, as well as gain a stronger understanding of how literary form influences meaning. This course will be taught remotely.

 

Section 010 / CRN 15221 / FLXC, SS / 3 credits / Professor Meyerhoefer

Section 011 / CRN 15508 / FLXR, SS / 3 credits / Professor Meyerhoefer

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Fall 2020 Course Listing

HMS.FILM 097-010 Health & Illness in Film & TV Summer Session 1 ONLINE, 4 credits

Professor Kramp CRN 21562 HU

New American Cinema classics such as Easy Rider (Dir. Hopper, 1969), Midnight Cowboy (Dir. Schlesinger, 1969), and most famously M.A.S.H. (Dir. Altman, 1970) reconceptualized the image of the healthy, ill, and medicalized body in film. This course begins with M.A.S.H. and works through a variety of filmic representations of health, illness, disability, and recovery. We will study issues such as the role of the health industry, the training of health care workers, the experience of patients and family members, the limitations of peoples’ access to care, and effects of medical care on the individual body. Films will include Beginners (Dir. Mills, 2010), One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest (Dir. Forman, 1975), Silver Linings Playbook (Dir. Russell, 2012), Still Alice (Dir. Glatzer, 2014), Philadelphia (Dir. Demme, 1993), Flatliners (Dir. Schumacher, 1990), Sicko (Dir. Moore, 2007), 28 Days Later (Dir. Boyle, 2003), and Juno (Dir. Reitman, 2007).

 

Professor Schmidt CRN 20569 HU

 

Professor Stanlick Kimball CRN 21551 SS

 

Professor Noble CRN 21554 SS

 

Professor Alang CRN 20956 SS

 

HMS 170-010 Medical Humanities Summer Session 1 ONLINE, 4 credits
Professor Servitje CRN 21633 HU

 

Professor Essien CRN 21464 HU

 

Professor Davis CRN 21601 HU

From reproduction to dying, this course will focus on how ethical issues in science and medicine highlight the role of the family.  Issues include assisted reproduction and the role of gamete donors; genetic testing and the problem of misattributed paternity; the locus of decision making when patients are terminal or in pvs.  Should our individual-orientated medical culture move toward a more family-oriented perspective?

M, W, F 7:55 a.m. – 9:10 a.m.

Professors Ware and Fink

 

M, W 1:35 - 2:50 p.m.  First-year seminar.  CAS Deans Office permission required.

Professor Davis

 

T, R 3:00 - 4:15 p.m.  First-year seminar.  CAS Deans Office permission required.

Professor Pitkin

 

M, W 1:35 - 2:50 p.m.  

Professor Connolly

 

T, R 9:20 - 10:35 a.m.  

Professor Stanlick

 

T, R 10:45 - 12:00 p.m.  Restricted to HMS majors and minors.

Professor Napper

 

T, R 1:35 - 2:50 p.m.  

Professor Essien

 

M, W 7:55 - 9:10 a.m.  Restricted to HMS majors and minors.

Professor Reed

 

M, W 12:10 - 1:25 p.m.  Open to freshmen.

Professor Pavlock

 

For prospective medical personnel communicating with Spanish-speaking patients. Healthcare vocabulary, patient-provider interaction, and cultural background of the Latino patient.

M, W 1:35 - 2:50 p.m.  

Professor Prieto

 

T, R 7:55 - 9:10 a.m.  Pre-requisites HMS 130, 160, 180 or 198.

Professor Coyle

 

What can literature tell us about neurodiversity? And what can neurodiversity tell us about literature? In this course we’ll ask these key questions by reading a wide variety of texts and autobiographies by autistic people, stories with autistic characters, and classic literary works. We’ll begin by exploring the concept of neurodiversity, which insists that any notion of a “normal” or correctly functioning brain is a social construct, not a biologically superior reality. Seen from this perspective, neurodifferences are natural variations in the human genome, not impairments or deficits that should be corrected or eradicated. To understand why the neurodiversity movement arose, we’ll begin by closely analyzing relevant cultural materials such as advertising campaigns developed by the Autism Speaks organization. We’ll also explore how theories about language can be useful tools for exposing problems with behavior-based treatments for autism. We’ll then turn to fictional and nonfictional texts, exploring how acts of representation, imagination, and interpretation can enrich our understanding of neurodiversity and its ethical stakes. We’ll ask a series of questions: How do the modes of fiction, drama, and narrative work to shed light on autistic subjectivities or, in some cases, to reproduce dehumanizing stereotypes? How might neurodifferences influence the practice of reading and potentially reshape our understanding of some of the best-known literary 

CRN 18884 / 3 credits / M, W, F 10:10 - 11:00 a.m. / Prof. Peters

An introductory course that explores the connections between the environment and human health. Topics related to human health include climate change, energy production, genome-environment interactions, zoonotic disease, and drinking water chemistry. Introduction to the disciplines of geochemistry, ecology, geospatial data analysis, environmental epidemiology, toxicology, risk assessment, and exposure science. Course format includes a combination of lectures on fundamentals and seminar style topical readings.   

 

CRN 18992 / 3 credits / M, W 11:10 - 12:25 p.m. / Prof. Fink

Interdisciplinary course exploring neurobiology of memory and emotion, social identity, and effects of traumatic stress on mental and physical health over the life course. Focus on interactions of social, biological and psychological factors in creating health disparities. Critical feminist analysis of the neurobiology underlying mental health and illness; exploration of how power, hierarchy, and intersectional identity impact the body. Skills gained include critical reading of scientific literature, placement of neurobiology in social and ethical context, and creation of written and illustrated materials to communicate course principles in educational, health-related and artistic settings. Students will employ comics and other arts-based modes of learning.   

 

First year students may register with instructor’s permission only.
CRN 18029 / 4 credits / T, R 9:20 - 10:35 a.m. / Prof. Beck-Pooley

An introduction to the topic of environmental planning, the course will review the roles of citizens, other stakeholders, political interests, and local governments in determining the use of land; unpack the meaning of "sustainability;" and grapple with the challenge of balancing communities' demand for development with the need to protect valuable natural resources. Students will be introduced to examples of successful and unsuccessful instances of environmental planning both at home and abroad. 

 

 

First year students may register with instructor’s permission only.
CRN 16453 / 4 credits / M, W 11:10 - 12:25 p.m. / Prof. Smith

Introduction to Western medical history from the 18th century to the present day.  Students will explore patient/practitioner relationships, examine changing ideas concerning health, sickness, and disease, chart changes in hospital care and medical education, and tackle topics such as eugenics, medical experimentation, and health insurance.   

 

First year students may register with instructor’s permission only.

CRN 18842 / 4 credits / T, R 1:10 - 2:25 p.m. / Prof. Najar

This class explores the history of sexuality in the United States from the colonial era to the present. While sexuality can appear timeless and stable, sexual ideologies, categories, and behaviors have consistently evolved, and they have transformed American society in the process. While cod pieces and white wigs enhanced upper class men's apparent virility in the early Republic, the “Playboy era” saw a reliance of stereos and cars. Friendship between nineteenth-century women included intimacies that would now more typically be found in same-sex relationships and marriages. We will also study how institutions like the law, medicine, and the media have shaped sexual identities and experiences. In so doing, the class aims to develop sophisticated readers of historical and contemporary cultures.   

Prerequisite PSYC 001 or consent of instructor

CRN 17503 / 4 credits / M, W 7:00 - 8:15 p.m. / Prof. Lomauro

Examines research and theory on the patterns, causes, and treatment of various forms of abnormal behavior.

 

CRN 19121 / 4 credits / T, R 9:20 - 10:35 a.m. / Prof. Whitehouse

Medical Anthropology is the study of how conceptions of health, illness, and healing methods cary over time and across cultures.  Students will learn how social and cultural factors shape health outcomes in a variety of human contexts, and will study culturally specific approaches to healing, including Western bio-medicine.  The course offers a broad understanding of the relationship between culture, health and healing.   

 

First year students may register with instructor’s permission only.

HMS students can register without permission, all others require department permission.

CRN 19168 / 4 credits / CBE Global / W, F 8:45 - 10:00 a.m. / Prof. Alang

Impact of the AIDS epidemic on individuals and on social institutions (medicine, religion, education, politics, etc.); social and health policy responses; international experience; effect on public attitudes and policy on people affected directly by AIDS.   

 

CRN 18070 / 4 credits / T, R 9:20 - 10:35 a.m. / Prof. Servitje

The focus on individual voices and particular historical moments in the humanities disciplines has much to add to our understanding of health and illness.  This course will take up ethical, historical, and literary approaches to health.   

 

HMS students can register without permission, all others require department permission.

CRN 16383 / 4 credits / M, W 8:45 - 10:00 a.m. / Prof. Reed

This course provides historical perspective on the contributions and roles of public health; introduces health status indicators of morbidity and mortality, concepts of rate, causation, and public health surveillance and vital statistics; and addresses determinants of health from an environmental, social, behavioral perspective.  Aspects of health care delivery will be addressed from a population perspective and organizational structure.   

 

First year students may register with instructor’s permission only.

CRN 19069 / 4 credits / M, W 2:35 - 3:50 p.m. / Prof. Pavlock

This course is an introduction to scientific and medical terminology through the study of the core Greek and Latin roots and other elements (prefixes, suffixes) of this specialized vocabulary.  Students will develop the skills needed to analyze a broad range of scientific and medical terms linguistically and to recognize their components in order to understand better the meaning of medical language.  For fuller comprehension, attention will be paid to the ancient context of many of these terms.  The course will include regular homework assignments, quizzes, and exams.  No prior knowledge of Latin or ancient Greek is required.   

 

Open only to HMS majors and minors

CRN 16955 / 4 credits / T, R 10:45 - 12:00 p.m. / Prof. Friedman and De Maio

Knowledge of health communication is an essential foundation for anyone working in the field.  Yet communicating about health is often a complex and multi-faceted experience.  To better understand health communication, this course will explore the role of media and persuasion.  We will examine media coverage of health information; communications on risks and epidemics; theories and research of health behavior; effects of communication technologies on health communication; communicating about health data and information; health campaigns; engaging with individuals and communities with health messages, and more. Four professors will teach this class in modules: Sharon Friedman, Haiyan Jia, Janey Lee and Mariana DeMaio.   

 

HMS 221-010  Peer Health Adviser Training (SS) 

Instructor permission required.

CRN 17248 / 4 credits / T, R 2:35 - 3:50 p.m. / Prof. Papaz

This applied course explores student health at Lehigh University and focuses on the development, implementation and evaluation of prevention strategies designed to make Lehigh a healthy and safe living, learning community by exploring student health-related data, examining campus-wide priority student health issues and developing evidence-based interventions.  Peer Health Advisers are trained to provide peer-to-peer support, advice, resources and programming to promote healthy behaviors. Students completing the course are subsequently eligible to serve as Peer Health Advisers.   

 

CRN 18897 / 4 credits / T, R 10:45 - 12:00 p.m. / Prof. Steffen

An investigation of the role of religion and ethical analysis in constructing meaning around the idea of plague and pandemic. The role of religion in the European bubonic plague epidemic, the influenza pandemic of 1918, and the AIDS crisis will be examined, with attention give to ethical analysis of the institutional response to pandemic disease as distortions have occurred for political, social, and religious reasons.   

 

CRN 19219 / 4 credits / M, W 12:45 - 2:00 p.m. / Prof. Cook

In this seminar, students read and discuss in English scholarship and translations of texts critical to understanding the history of Traditional Chinese medicine from antiquity up to the present.   

 

CRN 17225 / 4 credits / WI (Writing Intensive) / W, F 11:10 - 12:25 p.m. / Prof. Alang

Social epidemiology is the study of the distribution and social determinants of health and disease in human populations. This course introduces the basic principles of epidemiological study design, analysis and interpretation, covering topics such as how a disease spreads across populations and how public health interventions can help control or reduce the spread of disease. This course also reviews epidemiology as a

social science by reviewing the social causes and consequences of health.   

 

CRN 19003 / 4 credits / T, R 10:45 - 12:00 p.m. / Prof. Beck-Pooley

This course will review how urban agriculture and city greening programs and policies are part of a growing movement working to strengthen neighborhoods, promote healthier living, and create more localized and sustainable food economies. This class will explore research and readings from multiple disciplines on these programs and policies, and will also delve into individual case studies that illustrate how efforts to improve food access, beautify vacant land, and reduce farm-to-table distances get creatively and successfully combined.   

 

Restricted to HMS majors/minors.

CRN 17511 / 4 credits / T, R 1:10 - 2:25 p.m. / Prof. Friedman

Exploration of health and environmental controversies from the perspectives of scientific uncertainty and mass media coverage. Examines genetic engineering, biotechnology, environmental health risks, and nanotechnology. Includes discussion of ethical and social responsibilities and interactions with the public   

 

Restricted to HMS majors/minors.

CRN 18670 / 4 credits / T 7:10 - 10:00 p.m. / Prof. Lomauro

The course addresses the psychosocial aspects of the development of healthy and unhealthy body image and eating disorders. The roles of personality traits/individual factors, family and interpersonal functioning, and cultural factors will be examined, as will the impact of representations of body image in mass media. Public health and psychological interventions for prevention and treatment will be explored. Personal accounts/memoirs, clinical case presentations, and documentary and dramatic films will be incorporated in the presentation of topics.  

 

Restricted to HMS majors/minors.  Prerequisite:  PSYC 117 or COGS 117 or COGS 007 or HMS 160 or HMS 180

CRN 17998 / 4 credits / M, W 8:45 - 10:00 a.m. / Prof. Marsh

Health care professionals diagnose physical and mental illnesses and create treatment plans to improve their patients’ health.  How do these professionals make decisions related to these important issues?  We will explore the literature on how medical and mental health professionals reason and make decisions about health care issues. Topics to be covered include diagnosis, treatment decisions, access to care, and how these reasoning processes are swayed.  Consideration will be given to patient decision-making as well. 

 

CRN 17512 / 4 credits / T, R 9:20 - 10:35 a.m. / Prof. Olson

Explores a range of health care programs and policies and their impacts on American society. Topics include the development of the U.S. approach to health care; public sector plans (Medicare and Medicaid); the role of managed care; the employer-sponsored system; the situation of the medically uninsured; the health care vested interests and lobbyists; movements for national health care; and options for change. 

 

CRN 17801 / 3-4 credits / M, W 12:45 - 2:00 p.m. / Prof. Lechuga

The course provides an introduction to the core concepts of community based participatory research (CBPR) methodology applied to social science research to address public health issues.  The course will equip students with strategies for developing community academic partnerships as well as to strengthen skills in research methods.   

 

Restricted to HMS majors/minors.

CRN 19012 / 4 credits / T, R 7:55 - 9:10 a.m. / Prof. Batts

 

Restricted to HMS majors/minors.

CRN 18610 / 4 credits / M, W 2:35 - 3:50 p.m. / Prof. Defenbaugh

This course critically examines the sociocultural and medical construction of health identities and how individuals perceive, represent and challenge their identities through verbal, visual, narrative, and online texts. Topics include hidden illness, mental health, racial/ethnic identity, disability studies (crip identity), queer identity (LGBTQIA), and women’s health.