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Goals and Learning Objectives

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    We suggest the following goals and objectives or student learning outcomes. We provide them in English and Spanish, as you may want to use either version depending on your audience: students or administrators.

    Goals

    • Appreciate that learning to read cultural texts carefully and effectively improves your ability to listen to and understand a patient and develop a more effective caregiving relationship.
    • Develop narrative competence, “to recognize, absorb, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness” (Charon, Narrative Medicine vii).
    • Acquire tools and practices of careful and effective reading and listening
    • Understand how culture shapes the ways we think about, talk about, and treat health and illness.
    • Recognize how human beings create and assess states of illness and health through language.
    • Through reading, develop a moral imagination, the ability to imagine the different experiences and values of another person.
    • Pose big-picture questions about the ethics and practices of health care.

    Learning Objectives

    • Analyze cultural texts applying the vocabulary of literary analysis to explain how texts communicate ideas, give pleasure, affect emotions and how they move readers with their visions of life.
      • Discuss the purpose of the text and how that purpose relates to the text’s specific historical context and its author’s identity.
      • Identify and compare the differing perspectives presented in a text and the voices that represent those perspectives.
      • Analyze the effects of the types of narrator and focalization in a text.
      • Describe the sensory images in a text.
      • Explain how the text uses figurative language to communicate meaning and create emotional or persuasive effect.
      • Identify the tone of a text and explain how that tone is created.
      • Analyze the effects of different registers and cultural spheres of the language used in texts: formal, colloquial, familiar, academic, medical, bureaucratic.
      • Interpret any movement a text makes in its treatment of a theme from beginning to end.
      • Contrast the ways in which different textual genres engage their publics.
    • Describe the ethical considerations in a health care situation and in the act of representing the health care situation in a verbal and/or visual text.
    • Describe the ambiguities of meaning as well as conflicting perspectives within a textual representation.
    • Compare how two different cultures (historically or geographically distant) differ in their beliefs about health care.
    • Appreciate how the practice of careful reading of literary and cultural texts can enhance professional practice in health care and other professions.
    • Demonstrate careful listening by interviewing another person about a health experience and representing that experience in a narration.

    Metas

    • Apreciar que el aprender a leer textos culturales con atención mejora la habilidad de comprender a otro ser humano, incluso a pacientes, y permite el desarrollo de una relación terapéutica más eficaz
    • Desarrollar la competencia narrativa: para “reconocer, absorber, interpretar y ser conmovidx por las historias de la enfermedad” (Charon, Narrative Medicine vii)
    • Adquirir las herramientas y prácticas de leer y escuchar eficazmente
    • Comprender cómo la cultura moldea la manera en que pensamos, hablamos de, y tratamos la salud y la enfermedad
    • Identificar cómo los seres humanos creamos y evaluamos los estados de la enfermedad y la salud por medio del lenguaje
    • Desarrollar por la lectura una imaginación moral: la habilidad de imaginar los divergentes valores y experiencias de otra persona
    • Plantear preguntas importantes sobre la ética y las prácticas de la asistencia sanitaria

    Objetivos

    • Analizar textos culturales, aplicando el vocabulario del análisis literario para explicar cómo los textos comunican ideas, estimulan placer, afectan las emociones y cómo conmueven a lxs lectores con su visión de la vida
      • Describir el propósito del texto y cómo ese propósito se relaciona al contexto histórico específico del texto y a la identidad de su autor
      • Identificar y comparar las diversas perspectivas presentes en un texto y las voces que representan esas perspectivas
      • Analizar los efectos y tipos de narración y focalización en un texto
      • Describir las imágenes sensoriales en un texto
      • Explicar cómo un texto usa el lenguaje figurado para comunicar significado y crear efecto emocional o persuasivo
      • Identificar el tono de un texto y explicar cómo se crea ese tono
      • Analizar los efectos de diferentes registros y esferas culturales y lingüísticos: formal, coloquial, familiar, académico, médico, burocrático
      • Interpretar el movimiento que ocurre en un texto en relación a sus temas desde el comienzo hasta el final
      • Contrastar las maneras en que diferentes géneros textuales atraen al público
    • Describir las consideraciones éticas en una situación de atención sanitaria y el acto de representar esa situación en un texto verbal y/o visual
    • Describir las ambigüedades de significado tanto como las perspectivas en conflicto en una representación
    • Comparar cómo dos culturas distintas, histórica o geográficamente distantes, difieren en sus creencias sobre la atención sanitaria
    • Apreciar cómo la práctica de leer con atención los textos literarios y culturales pueden realizar la práctica profesional en la atención sanitaria y en otras profesiones
    • Demostrar la capacidad de escuchar con atención por entrevistar a otra persona sobre una experiencia sanitaria y representar esa experiencia en una forma narrativa o poética
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