Spring 2027

Exploring Religion in Sickness and Health

Introduction to studying religion through health and health through religion, using humanities and social science approaches to explore sickness, well-being, and meaning-making across cultures.

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Summary

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Past student reviews · Corrie Norman

The course required extensive reading, often around 50 pages per lecture, and was considered more difficult than a typical 100-level introduction.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Develop global religious literacy, particularly as it relates to sickness, health, and healing.

  • Investigate some of the diverse ways in which religion both reflects and shapes human communities.

  • Summarize some classic and current theories in the academic study of religion.

  • Apply these theories to a variety of religious expressions related to sickness and health.

  • Express complex ideas around religion and health in the humanities and social sciences and in thoughtful human discourse generally.

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Prerequisites

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RELIGST 102

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Professors

Spring 2027

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

CHANCE MCMAHON is recorded teaching in Fall 2021. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

CORRIE NORMAN is recorded teaching in Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Corrie Norman

Students described the course content as interesting and the conversations as important and riveting.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.38 GPA, 69.3% A/AB (n=137 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.65 GPA, 86.5% A/AB (n=155 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.47 GPA, 74.7% A/AB (n=158 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Corrie Norman

The course required extensive reading, often around 50 pages per lecture, and was considered more difficult than a typical 100-level introduction.

Past student reviews · Corrie Norman

Participation in discussions was graded seriously by teaching assistants, making active engagement a critical component of the course success.

Topics

  • Religious understandings of sickness and health.
  • Connections between physical/spiritual well-being and medicine/meaning-making.
  • Health and religion in contexts of social marginalization and immigration.
  • Classic and current theories in the academic study of religion.

Skills

  • Developing global religious literacy related to sickness, health, and healing.
  • Applying academic theories of religion to expressions related to sickness and health.
  • Expressing complex ideas about religion and health in academic and general discourse.

Grades

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About this comparison

1316 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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