Religious Diversity in Healthcare: Intercultural Training

This course is designed to offer tools for understanding religious and cultural diversity within healthcare settings, which includes consideration of religious patients, religious healthcare workers, faith-based healthcare institutions, and the impact of religious communities on healthcare laws and services. To develop skills for navigating intercultural differences, students will practice applying academic approaches to religion to health-related case studies. Like the field of Religious Studies, this course is interdisciplinary. It requires students to learn about and to critically consider how a variety of people think about and practice religion and health. This course begins with the assumption that a better understanding of diverse perspectives on religion and health—along with practice in intercultural skills that address such diversity—can help students to navigate contemporary society and their future careers as more informed citizens.

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