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School of Medicine and Psychology · ANU College of Science and Medicine
Expression of Interest is required. EOI opens 1 May and closes 30 June. Link is “Other information section” below. This course introduces students to the field of health humanities, highlighting the ways humanities can throw light on complex inter-relationships between culture, medicine and health. It focuses on the health humanities in performance, text and visual media and is divided into modules to enable students to practice perspective-taking, observation, embodied learning and creative synthesis: 1) Personal accounts of illness - pathographies 2) Representations of the body and selfhood 3) Embodiment and health 4) Institutions and health care These four modules will be linked through three health humanities themes: cultural constructions of health and health care; narrative and visual representations of illness, health and well-being; and performance and health. Expert seminars will be presented by writers, dance artists, visual artists, and game developers. Students will develop a portfolio of work including an analysis of a pathography or a creative reflection on illness; an analysis of a visual work; and an analysis of a media representation of illness, health condition, or health intervention.
Presentation of visual representation of health, illness or medicine
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3
Analysis of pathography
Learning outcomes 1, 2
Creating and communicating a representation of illness, health condition, or health intervention (hurdle assessment) (includes group work)
Learning outcomes 2, 3, 4, 5
Engagement
Learning outcomes 5
The expected workload will consist of approximately 130 hours throughout the semester including: - Face-to-face component which may consist of 1 x 2 hour lecture and 1 x 1hour tutorial per week (36 hours total). - Approximately 94 hours of self-directed study which will include preparation for lectures, presentations and other assessment tasks. Other Information Students are expected to engage with and discuss a variety of stimulus material. Some of this material will be chosen by the student to illustrate key concepts throughout the course. A quota will apply to admission to this course. Students must register an expression of interest to enrol. Selection is based on (i) the quality of the EoI, demonstrating those students whose transcripts indicate a willingness to explore learning outside their majors/minors, and (ii) relevant disciplinary and sub-disciplinary knowledge bases. The final participant list is drawn from all colleges of the university. The intent is to select students who show potential to engage actively in the course, and also bring with them diverse sets of academic, social and cultural knowledge, adding richness to the cohort’s learning.
There are no prescribed texts for this course.