4 courses with the subject HP, 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.
HP 122Introduction to the Health Humanities3
This course provides an introductory exploration of how cultural values related to health shape experiences of being unwell, health care practices and how society understands the purpose of medicine. The course gives critical attention to fictional literature, film, and patient and professional memoirs, placing them in conversation with ethical reflection and social scientific analysis related to the experience of illness or injury and the delivery of health care. Credit(s): 3
This course introduces students to the wide variety of professional health programs at SU and the careers that students with degrees in these disciplines might pursue. Invited faculty, graduate students and external practitioners clearly articulate the requirements, expectations and rigors of each health program. Students also learn how each discipline contributes to the national focus on team-based health care. Credit(s): 1
This course will display the relevance of the humanities and social sciences to preparation for careers in the health professions. It will give introductory critical attention to literature, visual arts, film, theater, music or dance from multiple cultural perspectives in an attempt to develop students’ capacity for relating to patients on a human level - morally, by being sympathetic or empathetic; interpersonally, by being able to elicit appropriate responses and communicate effectively; and creatively, in their ability to analyze patients’ symptoms and conditions. The course will also introduce students to historical and political analysis of health care to broaden students’ understanding of the context in which they will practice their professions. Students should take EHP 101 and EHP 102 whenever possible, especially if they are taking this course as part of the Health Humanities Certificate Program. Credit(s): 3
This course serves as the capstone experience for students pursuing the Health Humanities Certificate. Students in the course will engage texts from the humanities and/or social sciences related to some single problem, issue or topic in health care selected by the professor. In addition, students will develop a project of their own requiring the application of insights from multiple disciplines, including the humanities, addressing some problem or issue students have encountered in their preparation for a career in the health professions. Credit(s): 3
