HUM-1250 CULTURE & HEALTH
Culture and Health explores how humans use their natural and social environments to maintain health and wellness, understand illness, and heal each other. It is an introduction to the study of medical and health care systems in a global context. Course topics include health systems used in different cultures (such as Indigenous sciences, Ayurveda, and Chinese sciences), how people handle life cycle events like birth, reproductive milestones, and death, and what types of medicines people use to treat illness. Medical disparities, or social inequalities in access to health care and beliefs and personal perspectives on health care are explored. Students will conduct applied research on medical disparities. This course is considered a Humanities General Education course.