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Cool new class being offered next quarter!

Posted: November 5, 2009

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There will be a new class offered through the English Department next quarter that looks really cool.

English 275: Ways of "Knowing": Health, Illness and Identity will be taught by Sheila Bock, a PhD Candidate in English on Mondays and Wednesdays from 3:30-5:18pm (course #25816).  You can read the details in the accompanying flier, but here are some highlights:

  • Examine critically the multiplicity of health beliefs in American Culture
  • Examine the complex ways ideas about health interact with how people identify themselves and others
  • Where do people learn what they "know" about health and illness?
  • Which beliefs are given the most credibility and which are most marginalized in American culture today and why?

Not only will the class fulfill an arts & humanities GEC requirement, it offers a very valuable way of looking at the concept of health care, which is so much more than just symptoms and diagnoses and lab tests and medicines.  There are many powerful forces - economic, psychological, cultural - that are invisible yet have a direct impact on your health and well-being every day.  The more you learn about them now, the better off you'll be.  And this class looks like a great place to start!

John Vaughn, MD (Student Health Services)

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