DISCOVER HOPKINS HEALTH STUDIES: The Hospital
- Session I:
July 11 - 24
Course Number: AS 360.118.01 (1 credit)
- Session II: July 25 - August 7
Course Number: AS 360.118.02 (1 credit)
Instructor: Dr. S. William Leslie
Description: You were probably born in one, will sooner or later find yourself being treated in one, and might just spend your career in one. This course will look at the history, economics, technology, and public policy debates surrounding the modern hospital. We will explore the hospital's role in health care delivery in rural and urban settings, in medical schools, and in mental asylums and other specialized hospitals. Special attention will be paid to the Johns Hopkins Hospital, America's top-ranked for 18 years and counting.
DISCOVER HOPKINS HEALTH STUDIES: Environmental Health and Justice
- Session I:
July 11 - 24
Course Number: AS 360.118.03 (1 credit)
Instructors: Talia Chalew and Beth Feingold
Description: Students will learn concepts of environmental health and environmental justice while applying them to one case study in Westport, Baltimore. Curriculum will involve lectures introducing the key ideas, science communication, as well as hisotry of the Westport field site. Field trips will visit the locations, interact with community and political leaders in affected areas, and collect samples. Afterwards, students will analyze samples and formulate ideas to make positive change in the community.
DISCOVER HOPKINS HEALTH STUDIES: Plagues and Pandemics in Literature
- Session I:
July 11 - 24
Course Number: AS 360.118.04 (1 credit)
- Session II: July 25 - August 7
Course Number: AS 360.118.05 (1 credit)
Instructor: Pamela Kirkpatrick
Description: The study of plagues and pandemics is a study of human behavior. How do we react in the midst of a mass disaster? What are the effects of widespread fear and misinformation? How does our relationship to God change? This timely course will look at novels, short stories, and poems, which address these and other issues. Students will write their own stories based on both real and invented plagues and pandemics.
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SCHEDULE
- Session I
July 11 - 24 - Session II
July 25 - August 7
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