Spring 2027

Health and the Humanities

Health and the Humanities explores a humanistic perspective on health, illness, and medicine, examining language, culture, race, gender, and media's role in shaping biomedical knowledge and patient experiences.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Yang Li

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.88 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.86 GPA, 92.9% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Reflect on personal values and experiences in relation to health, illness, and medical care, and use humanities methods to explore them

  • Engage respectfully with alternative views on health and illness (especially drawn from different cultures/life experiences), and develop interpersonal skills in class projects

  • Identify ethical dilemmas in healthcare, apply analytical tools to these problems, and discuss the benefits and shortcomings of various approaches

  • Recognize major historical trends pertinent to the health field and demonstrate an understanding of the connections between events, ideas, and values across time

  • Understand how creative and humanistic thinking impacts experiences of illness and can improve the delivery of care and healing

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

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Prerequisites

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Junior standing and declared in the Health and the Humanities Certificate

  • Junior standing and declared in the Health and the Humanities Certificate
ENGL/ILS 525

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  • Junior standing and declared in the Health and the Humanities Certificate

Professors

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 250

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.88 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.86 GPA, 92.9% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Role of language and culture in biomedical knowledge
  • Lived experiences with physical and mental illness
  • Intersections of race, gender, sexuality, disability, and medicine
  • Political dimensions of diagnosis, disease, and epidemics
  • Role of fiction, creative non-fiction, comics, and film in health experiences
  • Non-expert interaction with medical technical vocabularies

Skills

  • Use humanities methods to reflect on personal values and experiences related to health and medical care
  • Develop interpersonal skills by engaging respectfully with alternative cultural views on health and illness in class projects
  • Identify ethical dilemmas in healthcare and apply analytical tools to evaluate various approaches
  • Recognize major historical trends in the health field and connect events, ideas, and values across time
  • Apply creative and humanistic thinking to understand illness experiences and improve care delivery

Grades

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Catalog & offerings

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ENGL/ILS 525 · Spring 2027

Health and the Humanities

Recorded 2026-10-14
ENGL/ILS 525 · Spring 2027

Health and the Humanities

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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