Health Humanities Track

Program Description

Students will be exposed to and engage in selected literature, visual arts, music, theatrical performance, narrative medicine, both written and oral, and scientific scholarship about the humanities. Students will also participate in service learning opportunities. At the culmination of the FLEX Scholarly Concentration, all students will present their work at the FLEX Fair in either oral or poster format.

FLEX Scholarly Concentration Course Learning Objectives

1. Evaluate the literature to identify a focus for a scholarly project that will advance what is currently known about health and disease (PL 3)
2. Apply a systematic approach to design, implement and evaluate a scholarly project (MK 8)
3. Assess outcomes of work on a scholarly project to define appropriate next steps (PD 2)
4. Present scholarly work clearly and concisely in a structured abstract, poster and verbal poster presentation (CS 1)