Implementing an Integrative Health Humanities Certificate Program

FAIN: AKB-285769-22

University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire (Eau Claire, WI 54701-4811)
Louisa Rice (Project Director: September 2021 to present)
Julie A. Anderson (Co Project Director: May 2022 to present)

A three-year project to implement a health humanities certificate program.

The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire will implement an Integrative Health Humanities Certificate that engages four humanities departments as well as departments of Psychology, Social Work, Biology, and the Institute for Health Sciences. Its integrated curriculum requires students to take a core course: Health Humanities, and engage in an experiential practice, including collaborative research and internship opportunities. Focusing on long-term sustainability we will 1) Develop new and revise existing courses, and create an interdisciplinary Advisory Board responsible for assessment 2) Expand on existing experiential learning opportunities and build a system to track student participation and 3) Create a public-facing website to house ongoing Health Humanities projects. Our program will enroll 25 students in year 1 and 75 annually by year 5. This certificate will play a crucial role in realizing the University’s goal of attaining national distinction in “health and wellbeing” by 2025.

Associated Products

Public Presentation: Latinx Voices of a Pandemic (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Public Presentation: Latinx Voices of a Pandemic
Abstract: Come join us for a presentation on digital archives preserving the stories of Latinx communities in Wisconsin and Nebraska: Voces Del Campo and Voces of a Pandemic. Presenters will discuss prioritizing collections that share the voices of those historically marginalized & share details about digital archival work to provide long-term, equitable access to these stories.
Author: Wendy Guerra
Date: 10/11/2022
Location: UW-Eau Claire

IDIS 200 Health Humanities Course - Student Reflections (Course or Curricular Material)
Title: IDIS 200 Health Humanities Course - Student Reflections
Author: Multiple
Abstract: At the end of the class (taught Spring 2023) students were asked to reflect upon what was most interesting about the course/what they wished we’d covered more, how might they connect the class to their own major, and how it made them think differently about health—either as a future practitioner or in terms of their own health and the health of their loved ones.
Year: 2022
Audience: Undergraduate

Syllabus: IDIS 220 Introduction to Narrative Medicine (Course or Curricular Material)
Title: Syllabus: IDIS 220 Introduction to Narrative Medicine
Author: Jose Alvergue
Abstract: New introductory course on narrative medicine
Year: 2024
Audience: Undergraduate

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