HUM 205 - Literature and Healing: Moral, Ethical, and Legal Implications

(3 credits)

Meets Category I General Education Requirements
45 lecture hours
Prerequisites: ENG 101 or appropriate ACCUPLACER scores
This course offers students the opportunity to access and to analyze moral and ethical principles which apply to different health-related issues expressed in literary works. Issues such as patient abuse, mental illness, highly infectious viral diseases, depression, physical diseases, death, and other related issues will be considered from the practical perspective of literature, psychology and philosophy students as well as students in the biotechnology and allied health fields. These specific issues will be presented through the study of novels, books, and articles from which principles and dilemmas regarding the content may have evolved as well as the critical and analytical study of literary selections in which these issues are evident.