15 courses with the subject HHMN, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
HHMN 105Narratives of Health and Healing3
Hour(s) An introduction to the study of human health through literature, narrative, and the arts drawn from diverse cultural contexts. Students will develop critical skills in text-centered methods of analysis through topics including representations of health, healers, and healing; illnessand disability narratives; death and dying; medicine, technology, and the human body.
Hour(s) A course taught using contemporary graphic novels from Western Europe and America. Students will focus on the development of skills of empathy, as they learn to ‘read’ the visual storytelling effects of this vibrant ‘new’ art form. Panel and character design, the placement of text within panels, the way in which characters’ faces and bodies move, and many other features all contribute to the narrative and provide opportunities to ‘join’ the characters, empathize with them, in the unfolding story-experience their emotions, become part of their fictional life journey. As in the fine arts, graphic novels are about joy, love, sorrow, fear, pride, hope, despair, ecstasy, anger, surprise; power, triumph, generosity, conflict, faith, spirituality, heroism, domesticity. The main question for this course: how do artists express these deeply human feelings-and how can we recognize and share them when we see them in these works of sequential art? The roots of graphic novel storytelling techniques will also be explored in the visual culture of many pre-modern periods, from Egypt to the Baroque, as well as in early graphic media and comic books.
Hour(s) Independent study under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Open to students with a 2.0 cumulative average and permission of the program director. Independent study may take the form of readings, research, conference, project and/or field experience. Independent study may be taken a total of three times, regardless of semester hour value.
Hour(s) This course is designed to assist students in the health humanities prepare for careers outside of academia. Students will learn about the history of the health humanities, investigate potential careers and design a timeline and plan to maximize their professional development at Salem College.
Hour(s) Introduces the multidisciplinary field of disability studies with particular attention to gender. Students will explore how understandings and experiences of disability have been positioned in various frameworks, including political, legal, literary, rhetorical, artistic, educational, medical, and religious. They will examine how culture, community and self-advocacy create alternatives to longstanding discriminatory systems and to medical or charity-oriented models of disability.
Hour(s) Focus on a particular topic within the interdisciplinary field of Health Humanities. The specific content and methods of study will be announced in the course description. As the topic changes, the course may be repeated.
Hour(s) This course explores the ethical issues, principles and theories regarding health and healing with particular attention to how different cultures and groups understand health, disease, disability, and healing systems. Students examine how care decisions can create tensions between individual rights and the common good, how religious beliefs can intersect with health choices, and how gender, race, ethnicity, and class relate to health inequities. The course introduces ethical principles, moral theories, and values such as truth-seeking, care, and empathy as guides to ethical reasoning in matters that may include aging and end of life care, eugenics, mental illness, or other topics.
Hour(s) This course examines the history of medicine from the ancient Mediterranean world to the modern era with a special emphasis on Europe and the Middle East. Also a prominent part of the course will be addressing the underlying ideas to past and present practices. By examining the historical antecedents to current medical practices, students will have the historical depth to better contextualize current debates concerning modern health issues.
Hour(s) This course examines rhetorical practices related to health and medicine, with a focus on strategies employed by both experts and popular culture. The course will emphasize connecting theories of rhetoric with current health debates, including how discourses of medicine intersect with issues of race, disability, gender identity, sexuality, and socioeconomic status.
Hour(s) A course taught using works from Italian Renaissance, Northern Renaissance and Baroque Art. Students will focus on the development of skills of empathy, as students learn to ‘read’ the visual storytelling of the past. The history of art concerns itself with the representation of the great stories of Western and other civilizations, from the Bible, myth and history. These visual stories cover the full range of human experience: they express a vast range of deeply human emotions and themes. Art is about joy, love, sorrow, fear, pride, hope, despair, ecstasy, anger, surprise; about power, triumph, generosity, conflict, faith, spirituality, heroism, domesticity. The main question for this course: how do artists express these deeply human feelings-and how can we recognize and share them when we see them in works of art?
Hour(s) An opportunity to use the knowledge and skills the student has learned in coursework in a real work setting. The apprenticeship aspect of the internship implies that the student has some base of knowledge and will increase knowledge and skills by direct contact with an experienced, knowledgeable mentor. Open to sophomores, juniors and seniors with a 2.0 cumulative average; maximum credit per term is four semester hours; admission by application only.
HHMN 290Honors Independent Study Health Humanities3-4
Hour(s) An advanced independent study under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Open to juniors and seniors with a 3.5 average in Health Humanities courses, subject to the approval of the program director. Honors Independent Study work may be taken a maximum of twice.
Hour(s) The course will provide a cultural understanding of the many complexities that are involved in access to and participation in health initiative for members of the US Hispanic and Latinx community. It will discuss some cultural values and their historical context while maintaining a Cultural Humility framework. No Spanish prerequisite, although some knowledge of Spanish would be helpful.
Hour(s) An examination of contemporary ethical issues from the standpoint of varied religious traditions. Topics may include religious ethics related to health and healing; war, peace, and violence; leadership, gender, and virtue; or study of a particular approach, such as womanist or mujerista ethics. May be taken more than once with a different topic. Prior coursework in religion or ethics is recommended.
Hour(s) In this course, students will develop a substantial, original research project concerning health leadership drawing on the methods and materials of health humanities. Required of majors in their senior year. Juniors may take this course will permission of instructor.
