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2017-2018 University Bulletin 
    
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ENGL 235 - Literature and Medicine

3 hours
How can the study of literature help us better understand the experience of illness or the practice of medicine? Students will consider the artistic challenges inherent in representing pain, analyze the cultural contexts surrounding narratives of sickness and health, and explore what the literary imagination has to offer medicine through close readings of works in multiple genres.

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  

This course will satisfy the literature core area requirement.



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