WL ARTS 122
Healing across Cultures
Description: Lecture, two and one half hours; discussion, one hour. Examination of multiple traditions of healing as recorded across cultures, raising questions about continued vitality and comparisons to allopathic medicine. Study driven by theory (why people heal differently) and praxis (how things are done differently when body or health conceived differently). Broadens thinking about body, health, curing, and performances of healing (as acts and spectacles). Students draw from and contribute to Archive of Healing as database and practical project. Consideration of questions such as how cultural assumptions affect individual's options for seeking healing; what is dynamic between individual and community health; how changes in conceptions of body affect healing practices in various cultures; how image of and approach to health varies across culture; how healing has been studied previously and new lines of inquiry; if methods of healing are available to everyone regardless of cultural histories of community protocols. Letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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I didn't take a WAC course with Tokofsky. I went on the summer travel study program to Vienna, Munich, and Berlin, and took German 102 (but this doesn't give that option to select). The Vienna, Munich, Berlin program is amazing. Every student who has the opportunity to go should do it. I took German language on the trip, but you don't even need to do that because Tokofsky teaches two GE courses in English. The one I took was German 102, which is about art during the 20th century. I wasn't really that interested in art, but he uses art to talk about the transformation of Vienna, about the Nazis and what they did (they didn't like modern art!), and about Berlin and the changes in the world. The whole experience was really cool - after lecture we would go out and see the very stuff he was talking about. Now I can go to a museum and really feel like I understand what's going on. Tokofsky is also really into taking long walks through the cities and pointing out things. It's like being on a constant guided tour, which can get tiring (we started calling them Tokofsky's death marches), but looking back I really appreciate it. And best of all, Tokofsky (and Stevens, the other professor) like to hang out at pubs with the students after class time, and they can be pretty fun.
I didn't take a WAC course with Tokofsky. I went on the summer travel study program to Vienna, Munich, and Berlin, and took German 102 (but this doesn't give that option to select). The Vienna, Munich, Berlin program is amazing. Every student who has the opportunity to go should do it. I took German language on the trip, but you don't even need to do that because Tokofsky teaches two GE courses in English. The one I took was German 102, which is about art during the 20th century. I wasn't really that interested in art, but he uses art to talk about the transformation of Vienna, about the Nazis and what they did (they didn't like modern art!), and about Berlin and the changes in the world. The whole experience was really cool - after lecture we would go out and see the very stuff he was talking about. Now I can go to a museum and really feel like I understand what's going on. Tokofsky is also really into taking long walks through the cities and pointing out things. It's like being on a constant guided tour, which can get tiring (we started calling them Tokofsky's death marches), but looking back I really appreciate it. And best of all, Tokofsky (and Stevens, the other professor) like to hang out at pubs with the students after class time, and they can be pretty fun.
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