EN 232 - HUM Graphic Medicine

4.00 credits.

Humanities Core Course.
This course introduces students to the literary form of graphic medicine: comics that address issues of illness, wellness, (dis)ability, and medicine from the perspectives of patients, health care providers, caregivers, and/or family members. The class will introduce students to the fields of literary and comics studies as well as medical and health humanities to develop the tools and vocabulary necessary to critically engage with graphic medicine texts. Students will read and create graphic medicine texts.