Seminars
Health, Medicine and Human Values seminars are interdisciplinary courses that provide opportunities for:- Experiential and problem-based learning
- Applied writing and speaking
- Small-group problem solving
The seminars involve collaborative teaching with faculty from the School of Medicine and the College of Arts and Sciences. The seminar titles are as follows:
- HMHV 1110: Social Contours of Health
- HMHV 2110: Literature, Fine Arts, and Medicine
- HMHV 301: Health Economics, Politics, and Policy
- HMHV 310: Health and Cultural Diversity
- HMHV 401: Ethics, Medicine, and Health
- HMHV 498: SOM Prep Course
HMHV Seminars (15 hours)
HMHV 1110: Social Contours of Health
Seminar exploring ethnic, economic, demographic, and geographic variables impacting public health in New Mexico and the Southwest. Topics include access to health care; local alternatives to medical treatment; cultural definitions of health, illness, and death.
HMHV 2110: Literature, Fine Arts, & Medicine
Seminar exploring links among health, illness, literature and the arts, encompassing a diverse range of forms and genres. Topics include representations of health, illness, and medicine; arts as therapy; medical history in literature and art.
HMHV 301: Health Economics, Politics, and Policy
Seminar exploring political and economic forces that impact health care policies and practices. Topics include political and economic forces impacting health care; health care reform; the institutional and political organization of medicine.
HMHV 310: Health and Cultural Diversity
Seminar exploring cultural variables that affect the experience and practice of health and health care: how culture, ethnicity, race, and gender inform ideas of health and illness, death and dying, and the patient-physician relationship.
HMHV 401: Ethics, Medicine, and Health
Seminar exploring ethical and legal considerations that influence medical practices and decision-making. Topics include contemporary ethical and moral issues in medicine; and a comparative and critical analysis of relationship between professional ethics and personal beliefs.
HMHV 498: SOM Prep
Topics will vary from instructor to instructor, but will be an in-depth seminar in a particular practice, issue or discipline within health and medicine.
