SPAN 73.14 Embodying Care: Immigration, Health, and the Medical Humanities
This seminar integrates the medical humanities with public health and policy to study how migration, race, gender, labor, and colonial histories shape health access, trauma, and healing. Through fiction, theatre, visual art, documentary, and community-engaged methods, students examine immigrant health in U.S. and Latinx contexts and produce bilingual, public-facing work that connects analysis to practice. Creative expression is approached as critique and resilience against structural inequities, while students also learn narrative humility, ethics, and bilingual engagement grounded in community care.
As a co-taught course with faculty from Spanish and Portuguese and Geisel, the course fulfills the curricular requirements for each unit. For Hispanic Studies majors and minors, the course counts toward major and minor credits. For Geisel students, the course is integrated into the Spanish Pathway curriculum.