ILLNESS/DISABILITY NARRATIVES
- W 10:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
- W 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
-
Instructor:
Sayantani T Dasgupta
CULPA: 2 Info -
Instructor:
Mary E Sormanti
Info - 4 points
ILLNESS-THOUGHT-ACTIVISM
ILLNESS THOUGHT ACTIVISM
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
-
Instructor:
Richard Slusarczyk
Info - 1 points
SELF & OTHER IN CLIN ENCOUNTER
TBD
- M 5:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
-
Instructor:
Michael E Davidovits
Info - 4 points
PRACTICUM: FACILITATING NARRATIVE MEDICI
PRACTICUM: FACILITATING W
TBA
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- 3 points
DEMENTIA NARRATIVES
This course takes a short, intensive dive into the narratives that story our experience of and with dementia. “Dementia Narratives” will use the literary genres of film, fiction, memoir, and graphic novels to excavate dementia stories using three framing tools. First, we will consider the relationship between the storyteller and the person with dementia, and the positioning of the person with dementia in the context of the story. Second, we will attend to these stories as they are framed by metaphors. And third, as we attend to these narratives we will also connect them to implications for practice and policy. In Narrative Medicine we focus on story and its importance in understanding the experience of illness for the individual, for the family or community, and for society. In this course we explore the elephant in that room: the importance of the illness experiences that cannot be narrated. Can we use the skills we gain in close reading and reflective writing to better understand the relationship between memory and self, when memory is inconsistent, free-floating, and riddled with holes? The purpose of this exploration is to better serve the needs of those whose stories do not fit the expected arcs of coherence, to understand the world of the caregivers for those with dementia, and to consider how narrative and policy inform each other in this growing arena of societal need. These questions and topics hover at the edges of current courses such as “Illness/Disability Narratives,” but are generally not directly addressed.
- 1 points
Disability and Illness Narratives (CERT)
Disability Illness Narrat
This course examines questions such as: What does the telling and reading of narratives do for the ill or disabled individual? How can clinicians effectively elicit, interpret, and act upon such narratives? Who owns a story, and what is the role of co-authorship, power and witnessing in story-telling and story-listening? Whose voice do we hear? What are the roles of power and hierarchy in story-telling and listening? What is the impact of familial, cultural, social, institutional, political contexts on the individual story? And finally, how can personal stories be translated to political advocacy and action? Texts assigned weekly will be broadly interdisciplinary – drawing from memoir, poetry, essays, fiction, feature and documentary films, narrative theory, and disability studies, exploring the relationship between disability/illness experience and narrative. This elective course is open to all students in the Narrative Medicine CPA program. Students should be prepared to engage with each other and with the instructor and to offer their questions, comments, insights, and analysis.
This is an essential, practically applied element of narrative medicine study and it is exemplary as a way to illustrate the impact of narrative study in shaping experience, opening awareness, and highlighting the need for change and new stories. A narrative medicine course focused on disability and illness narratives is an important aspect of narrative medicine study. Exploring narratives presented in a variety of formats by using narrative medicine methods can encourage deeper perspective-taking and promote activism for underrepresented voices.
Disability and Illness Narratives: Storytelling For Awareness and Activism
is an elective course in the Narrative Medicine CPA program. In addition, this course is open to cross-registrants in other programs who demonstrate some understanding of narrative medicine and/or participate in the online asynchronous narrative medicine orientation course before the semester begins. Narrative Medicine CPA students are required to have completed, or be simultaneously enrolled in the course,
Narrative Medicine Methods: Close Reading and Writing
, course number K5120, and have completed the required program online asynchronous orientation course. CPA courses are all 10 weeks/modules long, and they are online and asynchronous, which means there are no meeting times. Each module represents one week of the course. All modules begin on a Tuesday and end on Monday of th
- 3 points
CAPSTONE: NARRATIVE MEDICINE SCHOLARSHIP
CAPSTONE: NMED SCHOLARSHI
The Narrative Medicine Scholarship Capstone advances students’ scholarly writing on a topic of their choosing in a
dynamic collaborative working group setting. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the field, there are a range of
subjects, methodological approaches, and writing styles, and we will discuss the best approach to to each paper. We
can take up participants’ manuscripts at any stage of the writing process—from scratch, or a paper from another
course or context that you’d like to develop further. You do not have to have a set idea of which writing project you
wish to develop in advance; we can brainstorm together. All students will give and receive constructive feedback to
one another, and all students will receive instructor suggestions/comments/edits throughout the semester as well.
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
-
Instructor:
Danielle R Spencer
h-index: 5 Info - 3 points
CREATIVE CAPSTONE SEMINAR
This capstone seminar supports M.S. students as they develop and complete a substantial creative project in their chosen form (e.g., memoir, fiction, poetry, playwriting, dance, visual, graphic narrative, video, multimedia, hybrid work). Through workshops emphasizing both individual process and community exchange, students will receive peer support and critique. Readings will include essays on creative process and theory and will be assigned as relevant to the individual projects within the group. Students consider matters of process, form, audience, embodiment, and artistic responsibility. In addition to the final project, students will be asked to keep a process journal, occasionally to post to prompts on Courseworks, and to provide a short artist’s statement that situates your work within personal, disciplinary, and social frameworks.
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
-
Instructor:
Vincent G Tolentino
Info - 3 points
APPLIED WRITING
- M 10:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
- R 6:10 p.m.-9 p.m.
-
Instructor:
Catherine G Rogers
Info -
Instructor:
Jenessa R Abrams
Info - 4 points
WORKSHOP (CERT)
This workshop provides an intense immersion in the methods and skills of narrative medicine. Lectures will open up themes of how stories work, creativity, ethics, bearing witness, and empathy, while the small groups practice rigorous skills in close reading, creative writing, and responding to the writings of others. The learning objectives of the workshops are to 1) provide personal contact to introduce and solidify intersubjective relationships among participants; 2) to ignite use of methods that have been and will be utilized in the on-line component, e.g., writing to prompts from literary texts and responding to both form and content of colleagues’ writing; 3) plenary lectures from the architects of the discipline of Narrative Medicine in the foundational theories to be studied; 4) scheduled cultural learning opportunities of New York City (music, museums, literary readings) for shared creative experiences; 5) contact with Master of Science in Narrative Medicine graduate program for certification participants toward their understanding of the breadth of the field and the potential for their continuing to study NM after the CPA; 6) introduction to the national and international reach of Columbia Narrative Medicine so that participants grasp the value and magnitude of the community they have entered as certification program students. Participants will be given the chance to present their own works-in-progress to assembled participants and faculty as a jump-start to collaborative projects during and after the participation in the certification program.
- 0 points