Jul 02, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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IHS 3600 - Interpretations of Health and Medicine Through Literature
Cultural, ethical, and social perspectives and perceptions of illness, healing, caregiving, and medicine as exhibited in both classical and current literature are presented and analyzed.
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS Bridge: Diversity and Practice
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 2HL
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to identify, with intercultural sensitivity, more than one perspective of health and medicine across time through the use of literature or other sources.
- Students will be able to articulate varying perspectives of health and medicine across social and cultural worldwide frameworks.
- Students will be able to interpret pierces of literature or other sources from their own point of view and recognize the view of other groups in relation.to various diseases, illnesses, and disabilities.
- Students will be able articulate questions relating to differing cultural perspectives in reference to various literary sources.
- Students will be able to explain how various forms of literary sources might articulate cultural and/or ethical biases and how these biases may impact patient care.
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