This case study explores select integrative approaches to health and wellness, including Mind-Body Therapies such as ayurveda, yoga, mindfulness/meditation, taichi/qi therapy, chiropractic care, massage, acupuncture; Dietary Therapy, Naturopathy; and Art and Music therapy.
These approaches are examined in contrast to allopathy (biomedicine) and an emphasis on individual and patient-centeredness and interdisciplinary understandings of wellness, self-care, outcomes, safety, cultural origins, and application in preventive care and chronic illness management. Immersive learning opportunities are provided through shadowing experiences with practitioners in the Philadelphia area.
Spring 2027
When we read autobiographies, diaries or memoirs we expect the writing to be all about the individual writer. This Life Writing as a Dialogue course will use several autobiographical genres (autobiography, memoir, diary and auto fiction), to support students’ understanding of how relational dialogic processes are used in such genres to construct self and group identity.
Spring 2026