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This course teaches students to read and write essays that participate in the intellectual communities at Haverford College and beyond. Rather than approaching writing as an innate talent, the course treats writing as a learned, revisable practice and as a way of thinking that is developed through drafting, feedback, and radical revision. Students will practice transferable writing skill sets such as close reading, identifying interpretive problems, gathering evidence, developing reader-based prose, and revising structure and argument.

Over the last few decades, “medical humanities” and “health humanities” initiatives have been established at health professional schools across the country. In these programs, students study art, literature, history, and philosophy in the hopes that these endeavors will help them become better healthcare providers. But what exactly are “the humanities”? How do they differ from and relate to “the arts” or “humanity” itself? And how does a humanistic education benefit both healthcare providers and their patients? In this writing seminar, we will explore how humanistic inquiry contributes to knowledge about health and healthcare. Throughout the semester, we will focus on how we might leverage tools from the humanities to promote health equity and create more just systems of care.