17 courses with the subject MHH, 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.
MHH 201Introduction to Medical and Health Humanities4
This course introduces students to primary concepts and issues within the field of Medical and Health Humanities. Students will look at concepts of health and illness, as viewed from the perspective of the patient, the practitioner, and the public, and through the lens of humanistic study including history, philosophy, religion, art, music, and literature. Students will be exposed to a broad understanding of how different disciplines approach issues in the medical and health fields, including concepts regarding patient autonomy, human dignity, and social justice.
This course uses a narrative approach to explore the relationship between health, healing and social justice. Assessing how all forms of discrimination are linked to health status provides students with a fundamental understanding of the connection between economic status, political power, social rights, opportunities and social justice. The narrative approach gives voice to the vulnerable and disadvantaged and encourages an understanding and articulation of the human dimension in health care. Narrative practice is concerned with issues of trauma, body, and inter-subjectivity. This course examines the interconnectedness of social identity and the larger social, political, and cultural realities by combining theoretical articles and illness narratives. The challenge is how to honor the illness narratives and transform the stories of injustice and discrimination into stories of health, healing and social justice.
This course examines and interrogates discourses related to medicine and healthcare in a variety of historical contexts, utilizing the medium of comics/graphic narrative and incorporating clinical, patient, and caregiver perspectives.
MHH 201 Introduction to Medical and Health Humanities
MHH 310Health Disparities3
Students will critically examine health disparities between and within nations, using the United States as a case study. Using sociological texts alongside literary works, students will explore gaps in health outcomes as they relate to race/ethnicity, social class, gender, disability, nationality, and migration and immigration status. Determinants of health as defined by the World Health Organization will provide students with a foundation for a better understanding of the systems that shape and influence the conditions of daily life.
Students will explore issues that arise at the intersection of health care and human rights. The provision and protection of basic human rights is the surest way to improve the overall health of vulnerable populations. Public health problems such as infant mortality, widespread preventable illness, and malnutrition frequently occur among people who suffer from violations of their basic human rights. Human rights establish basic standards for the provision of health care and ethical norms for the treatment of patients. Topics include: human rights and public health, informed consent, and access to health care for vulnerable persons.
Focusing on both domestic and global environmental health, students will examine biological, socio-economic, and cultural issues in the intersection between environmental factors and human health. Through analyses of case studies and literary depictions of environmental factors in cultural products, disease causation, and public health, students will evaluate how different individuals and communities engage with the challenges of environmental health concerns ranging from microbial and chemical contamination of water and air to industrialization and unplanned urbanization.
Using a biopsychosocial model of health, students will explore constructions of and relationships between race and gender and how such constructions have shaped health care and health policies. Students will examine the historical foundations of race and gender (including national politics about slavery and race, eugenics policies and practices, nineteenth-century gynecology, mental health, sexuality, and gender identity), evaluating how these foundations have impacted contemporary health care.
Students will consider health care practices in a global setting and with an eye towards social, political and economic impacts and through the lens of inter-relational health. Using a transdisciplinary perspective, students will examine various global populations, in particular those populations in under-resources regions, in light of their health care needs - both communal and individual - national health policies, the impact on national and international communities, and the role of cultural memory.
This course will introduce students to methodological and theoretical concerns of geography and how they can be applied to the study of health and health care. Students will examine how our natural and built environments impact our health and access to health care and the spatial dimension of national and global health disparities. Students will evaluate how Geographic Information Systems are used to address the concerns of health professionals.
Students will focus on the cultural, economic, and political impact of epidemics and pandemics in the modem period by exploring specific outbreaks, including (but not limited to) the Plague, the nineteenth-century cholera epidemic, the 1918 influenza pandemic, and HIV/AIDS. These case studies will help students understand epidemics and pandemics in relation to trade, health and economic policies, and public perceptions in both their historical contexts and comparatively.
Students will choose either an internship with a medical/health organization or an observational rotation at a medical/health facility. For the internship option, students will apply academic knowledge to work experience; for the observation rotation, students will attend clinical meetings and participate in on-site observations. Placements will be made at the program director’s discretion. Can be repeated for a maximum of six credits.
MHH 201 ; Medical and Health Humanities major status Pre-/
Corequisite
PHL 310
MHH 385Special Topics in Medical and Health Humanities3
This course is an intensive study of an issue or topic in medical and health humanities. Topics determined by the instructor. Can be taught twice as the same theme.
In this course, students engage in a semester-long research project that integrates concepts from the MHH program and related fieldwork experiences as they relate to a chosen topic(s). Students will be exposed to advanced concepts in Medical and Health Humanities. Texts will vary depending on instructor. Must be taken if MHH 450: Senior Thesis is not chosen.
Students will write an independently-chosen critical thesis under the careful supervision of a faculty member teaching in the MHH program. Students will master all the phases of the research process, including the gathering of research from traditional and electronic bibliographical sources, standard systems of bibliographical citation, and organization of a developed and original argument. Must be taken if MHH 401: Senior Seminar is not chosen.
Students will be exposed to team-based medicine and the application of medical and health humanities concepts in an on-site observation rotation at a local hospital. Students will participate in an observation rotation in an approved division and attend ethics meetings.Placements will be made at the program director’s discretion. This course is graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.
Students will be exposed to medical and health humanities practices and apply academic knowledge to work experience at a medical or health organization, nonprofit, or government organization. This course is graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Placements will be made at the program director’s discretion.
This course is a special investigate of a selected issue in Medical and Health Humanities, as determined by the student and director of the independent study
