As you prepare to register for next semester’s courses, you may want to consider this course, taught by Professor Amoroso. As you can see from the description, the course centers around the narrative with a focus on its use in the medical field. The course description follows.

Interested in a medical career?

Stories are at the heart of caring for and healing the sick. All healthcare practitioners need to understand the art of telling and listening to stories of illness. Dr. Rita Charon, the founder of Narrative Medicine, explains, “…[T]he narrating of the patient’s story is a therapeutically central act, because to find the words to contain the disorder and its attendant worries gives shape to and control over the chaos of illness.”

This spring of 2018, you have an opportunity to explore how stories and medicine intersect (and fulfill an Explorations requirement at the same time!) in Narrative Medicine & Writing (ENG 208 A).

Here’s what you’ll learn in ENG 208 – A, Narrative Medicine & Writing:

  • How to recognize, interpret, absorb, and be moved by stories of illness
  • How to write your own and other illness narratives
  • The differences between a biomedical & narrative approach to health and disease
  • How medical research supports a narrative approach to healing
  • And so much more!

Please email Amy Amoroso (aamoroso@une.edu) with any questions.