Fall 2015

PRACTICUM CLINICAL LEADERSHIP
LEAD 399

Instructor: Merlo, Gia
This course provides students with the opportunity to shadow a physician at Houston Methodist hospital, a seminar series to enhance their knowledge of medical professionalism, and an intense writing experience aimed at reflecting on the Entrustable Professional Activities as defined by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). The mandatory weekly seminar will be held on Mondays from 5-6pm. To register for LEAD 399 in Fall 2015, you must add LEAD 009 to your schedule. Prior to the beginning of the semester, when physician assignments are disseminated, you will be required to register for LEAD 399 and drop LEAD 009 from your schedule if you have matched to a shadowing time. This should be done through ESTHER. NOTE: REGISTRATION FOR LEAD 009 DOES NOT GUARANTEE A SEAT IN LEAD 399. We will attempt to accommodate as many students as possible. HOWEVER, in order to matriculate into and register for LEAD 399, a student must: 1) Register for LEAD 009. 2) Complete all parts of the LEAD 399 Course Application due Wednesday, April 15 at noon. URL to course application: https://docs.google.com/a/rice.edu/forms/d/1lmxDvVfDpmAwiFnRNgMQJ4-Vg4A-... 3) Be matched to a physician through the process defined in the LEAD 399 Course Application. 4) At the beginning of the fall semester, drop LEAD 009 and register for a specific section of LEAD 399 based on their given shadowing time via ESTHER. 5) Complete ALL PARTS of the Methodist training via the MERLIN system due Friday, August 14, 2015 at noon. Information on documentation and how to complete the MERLIN training will be forthcoming. Registrants of LEAD 009 that successfully complete the course application by April 15 will be contacted with their physician assignment by April 22. If a student matches to a physician but fails to complete the MERLIN training by August 14, then his/her match will be revoked. If a student does not match to a physician assignment by April 22, then the student will either be asked for more potential timings that they could shadow or will be contacted and placed on a waiting list maintained in the department (not visible on ESTHER) as more shadowing spots may be created during the summer. Repeatable for Credit. (View Registrar Listing)

MASTERCLASS IN PUBLISHING, EDITING, PRESENTING AND PUBLIC WRITING
HURC 606

Instructor: Campana, Joseph A.
Offers undergraduate and graduate students insight into the public life of writing with particular attention to academic and literary publishing, editing, and presenting. Sessions organized around topics in these areas and visits with experts (agents, editors, authors, presenters, etc.) with experience in publishing, and creating series, festivals, and other forms of presentation. Meets 3 times per semester, helps develop internship possibilities for participants, and develop strategies for increasing the presentation of public writing at Rice. Mutually Exclusive: Credit cannot be earned for HURC 606 and HURC 406. Repeatable for Credit. (View Registrar Listing)

MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
SOCI 345 Distribution Group II

Instructor: Kimbro, Rachel T.
This course will explore the relationship between social factors and health, illness, and mortality, with a heavy emphasis on experiences of illness, the doctor-patient relationship, and the socialization of medical students and new doctors. Social determinants of health, cultural determinants of health, and the ethics surrounding conception, birth, and death will also be discussed. (View Registrar Listing)

MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH 381 Distribution Group II

Instructor: Mitchell, Beverly M.
Cultural, ecological, and biological perspectives on human health and disease throughout the world. (View Registrar Listing)

DISPARITIES IN HEALTH IN AMERICA
HEAL 380

Instructor: Rodriguez, Augusto X.
This course explores the aspects of race and ethnicity that influence health, public health policy, and the management and practice of healthcare, as well as, the trends which drive ethnic demographic transition including an aging white population, declining white birth rate, immigration of non-whites, and the higher birth rate of minority groups. Mutually Exclusive: Credit cannot be earned for HEAL 380 and HEAL 580. (View Registrar Listing)

HEALTH AND HUMANITIES MASTER CLASS
HURC 506

Instructor: Bailar, Melissa A.
A medical archivist, a current medical student, an epidemiologist, and a hospital case manager will lead class discussions on different aspects of the health industry today. The class will also go on field trips and read a short essay and watch a film to prepare for each discussion. Meets six times during the semester. Graduate students will have additional assignments. Repeatable for Credit. (View Registrar Listing)

ETHNOGRAPHIES OF CARE
ANTH 342

Instructor: Wool, Zoe H.
An ethnographically grounded exploration of the political, social, and intimate relations that constitute care in various situations of life and death. We ask how particular populations come to be understood as requiring, receiving, or being entitle to care? Who becomes obliged to provide care? And what are care's collateral effects? (View Registrar Listing)

SEMINAR ON THE END OF LIFE
RELI 344 Distribution Group I

Instructor: Brennan, Marcia G.
This course examines themes associated with death and dying from the historical through the contemporary periods. The class will adopt highly multidisciplinary approach that combines the critical perspectives of biomedicine, religious studies, art history, philosophy, anthropology, bioethics, and cultural studies as we consider life at the end of life. (View Registrar Listing)

HEALTH AND HUMANITIES MASTER CLASS
HURC 306

Instructor: Bailar, Melissa A.
A medical archivist, a current medical student, an epidemiologist, and a hospital case manager will lead class discussions on different aspects of the health industry today. The class will also go on field trips and read a short essay and watch a film to prepare for each discussion. Meets six times during the semester. Repeatable for Credit. (View Registrar Listing)

MEDICINE AND MEDIA
ENGL 273 Distribution Group I

Instructor: Nelson, Jon N.
An interdisciplinary exploration of the role of imaging technologies in the practice of medicine, and the role of mass media in shaping our understandings of the body, health, and disease. This course examines visual media structure "ways of seeing" for physicians and for the public. Emphasis will be placed on developing media literacy skills. (View Registrar Listing)

GENDER AND HEALTH
SOCI 465

Instructor: Gorman, Bridget K.
This seminar explores the relationship between gender and health (longevity, physical illness and functioning, mental health, and health behavior). Specific topics include masculinity, disease expression, medical research, health care use, stress and social relationships, and intersectionality (race/ethnicity and sexuality) as they relate shaping health outcomes among men and women. (View Registrar Listing)