COR 130F - Narrative Methods

Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3

In this course students will engage in contemplation of the Sinsinawa Dominican values of compassion, the search for truth, community, partnership, and justice through the framework of Narrative Medicine Methods. Narrative Medicine methods provide a guide in listening practices and deep attention to working with stories. From such diverse fields as literary criticism, anthropology, oral history, phenomenology, conscious studies, and aesthetic theory, narrative medicine has developed methods, that strengthen the capacity to recognize a teller’s story and attend to what their story conveys. All disciplines work with stories to foster relationships, community, and partnerships. In this course we will practice close reading paired with creative writing to develop to become deep listeners of a teller’s story. Narrative medicine methods increase self-understanding and enable us to attend to and practice ways we can embody our Dominican values. The goal of this course is to learn how narrative medicine methods help us live our Dominican values of cor ad cor loquitor (where heart speaks to heart), regardless of the context where we applied them. This course focuses on the value of compassion’s deep and motivating awareness of the suffering of others, and how we can be moved to study, reflect and act towards ethical leadership, alleviation of suffering and live compassionate service.

Course Fee: $20