CSPH 5111 is also offered in Fall 2024
CSPH 5111 is also offered in Fall 2022
Fall 2018 | CSPH 5111 Section 001: Ways of Thinking about Health (13911)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 2 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- S-N or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Weaver-Densford Hall W2-110
- Enrollment Status:
Open (9 of 20 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Cultural contexts explored through field-trip immersion experiences. Aspects of different health care systems. Indigenous North American, Vedic, traditional Chinese, biomedicine. Writing assignment. prereq: [Jr, Sr, or grad student standing], instr consent
- Class Notes:
- For permission numbers, contact Christina Owen at clowen@umn.edu. http://z.umn.edu/CSPH5111
- Class Description:
- CSPH 5111 "Ways of Thinking About Health" offers students a rare opportunity to explore diverse cultural contexts through field-trip immersion experiences. In this course, we will explore fundamental aspects of several different health-care systems, including Indigenous North American Medicine, Vedic Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine and biomedicine. The field-trip learning serves as a micro-cultural immersion experience for the purpose of helping students to understand different worldviews and systems of knowledge that do not correspond to a scientific model. The course is based upon the idea that thinking about different worldviews and healing systems from a detached, survey perspective is a quite different matter than thinking critically within the system being explored to attain deeper learning. Each field trip experience will be followed by a writing assignment, where the student will write on a health care issue of their choice, but from within the perspective of the system being studied. This approach is designed to allow each student the maximum opportunity to explore, experience, appreciate and articulate the cultural diversity in ways of thinking about health.
- Grading:
- 70% Reflection Papers
30% In-class Presentations
- Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
30% Discussion
50% Field Trips
- Workload:
- 4 Paper(s)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/13911/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 June 2012
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