GL COURSES
IDH 3034: Bioethics
Using real-world examples and interactive teaching methodologies, I learned to think critically about ethical issues surrounding food and nutrition, gender and sexuality, race and health, reproduction and children, coma and brain death, caring for the aging, and dying from the perspectives of clinical, research, population health, and global ethics. I learned to articulate different points of view regarding ethical issues and apply morally relevant facts, laws, philosophical concepts and cultural perspectives in their critical analyses.
SYP 3456: Societies in the World
This course deepened my understanding of human societies by examining them within a series of wider “world” perspectives: historical, environmental, global, and systemic. This course introduced me to some of the key concepts and ideas underlying a comparative, historical, and ecological perspective on the social world, including how societies evolved and became differentiated from each other each other; how and why certain societies prospered while others declined or even disappeared; and the prospects and challenges for sustainable societies in the contemporary world.
IDH 3035: Narratives of Medicine, Health, and Healing
This course aimed to bring forth the unbreakable (yet not well-valued and sparsely characterized) connection between the worlds of text (narrative, poetry, short stories, memoirs, interviews, and film adaptations) to the worlds of medical ailments and medical practice.
ANT 4461: Hallucinogens and Culture
This course discussed the use of hallucinogens (entheogens) by both ancient/primitive and modern civilizations, cultures, and religions. We examined the religious use of these substances, the rationality of current interdiction policy, their use in therapy and other fields, and their cultural usage in American and other societies.