Welcome Scholars!

This course examines the stories we create about medicine and health. It is presented in two equal parts: a topic seminar and a writing seminar. In this writing section, you will compose an outsider narrative, a metaphor paper, a critical lens essay, and an I-search paper, which is a more informal version of a research paper, based on a topic of personal interest to you.

You will read works by wonderful authors including Toni Morrison, Susan Sontag, and William Carlos Williams. We will also look at relevant videos and multimedia content. Finally you will create your own multimedia portfolio containing examples of your work.

I’m so excited to embark on this journey of exploration with you all. Please join me at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday August 26th for our first class of the semester. This will be a mostly informal meeting in which we will get to know each other and discuss our expectations for the semester. Here is the Zoom link.

See you in class!

Yolande