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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Analyzing the stories people tell about health, illness and disability, this course engages cultural studies approaches in order to explore the way those stories are told. Topics may include: illness and the graphic novel, the changing image of the healer in literature, collaborative storytelling with Alzheimer's patients, end of life narratives, tales from the ER, narrative ethics. (HU)
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4.00 Credits
Exploration of science, health and environmental controversies from the dual perspectives of scientific uncertainty and mass media coverage. Examines genetic engineering and biotechnology, environmental health risks, and human behavior research. Includes discussion of ethical and social responsibilities and interactions of scientists, journalists and the public. (SS)
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4.00 Credits
An overview of the topic of health psychology. The course presupposes a preventative intervention approach to the problem of assisting healthy individuals to understand the relationship between behavior and health, and to engage those behaviors that promote health. This course will be underpinned with basic science and research on health psychology, but will include an application focus. Prerequisite: PSYC 110. (SS)
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4.00 Credits
Relationships of women to the medical system. Influence of medicine on women's lives and the impact of the women's movement on health care. (SS)
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the moral rules and action guides that govern various professions. Professions to be examined will include health (physician and nursing); legal; counseling and psychiatry; engineering; military; clergy; teaching. Attention will be given to modes of ethical reasoning and how those modes are practically applied in professional life and activity. Among issues to be discussed will be the limits of confidentiality; employer authority; power relationships; obligations to the public; professional rights; sexual boundaries; whistle-blowing; safety and risk; computer ethics; weapons development; discrimination; professional review of ethical infractions. Course will include guest lectures and case studies. Steffen (HU)
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
A variable content course focusing on ethical issues arising in a particular profession, such as law, health, business, engineering, military. Variable credit. May be taken more than once. Steffen (HU)
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4.00 Credits
Variable Content. An opportunity for humanities faculty to involve students in the exciting and accessible aspects of their research. May be taken more than once for credit. Staff (HU)
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4.00 Credits
Required for students minoring in Peace Studies. Offers an overview of the field from the perspective of various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Among issues to be explored are the contested concepts of "peace," "war," and "violence" (overt and systemmethods for establishing "negative" and "positive" peacthe theory and evolution of "direct action" as a means tononviolent social change as practiced by Gandhi, King, and others; the causes of international conflict; methods for reducing, through diplomacy, the tensions that lead to war, for de-escalating hostilities and restoring peace; the validity of Just War theory and challenges to it. Since any attempt to establish peace must take into account the political and social environment in which advocates must operate, guest lectures by faculty from International Relations and other departments will be included. Bross (HU)
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4.00 Credits
Supervised practical work with Lehigh-Pocono Committee of Concern (LEPOCO), a volunteer peace- &-justice organization located in Bethlehem, PA, or with another peace- or justice-focused organization. Practical work will be combined with a sequence of supervised readings in the history and theory of nonviolent methods of resolving conflict. Requirements include journal-keeping, periodic consultations with the advisor, and a final essay on the student's response to the readings and his or her practical work. Bross or Kaufmann. (HU)
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Students will produce the annual edition of the Lehigh Review, the journal of undergraduate academic (non-fiction) writing. The production tasks are divided into one 4 credit editorial board and three 1 credit pass-fail modules (reviewing, distribution, images). Students may enroll in either the 4 credit editorial board or in one or more of the 1 credit modules. Admission is by application at the Humanities Center. (HU)
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