It deals with illness care, individual health, and health insurance. It will take a comparative and historical approach. We will look at the genesis of Canadian healthcare, our benefits and those other countries provide (e.g., pharmacare, dental care). We will look at indirect contributors like childcare and basic income. We will examine the public-private debate. We will also take some novel approaches. One is that the university has an expanded role in the 21st century, one that involves public outreach, a role that includes healthcare. Recent academic literature on healthcare notes that it is nation-building. We will look at why. We will examine some cutting-edge ideas, like integrated care, the learning health system, the concept of customer-owners. We will explore whether our healthcare system needs to be anchored by ‘institutions of excellence’ and identify these. ” Research emphasizes that complex, entrenched problems, like government relations with Indigenous peoples or human impacts on the climate, involve interconnected systems and require approaches that cross disciplines and types of knowledge. The course examines the role of literary works (mostly 21st-century fiction) in addressing these issues of pressing concern to students as global citizens. Critical thinking, scholarly reading and database research are foundational skills that this course strengthens in order to prepare students for their writing in disciplines across the university. Through a wide survey of poems, we will investigate not only the contextual motivation for poets responding to political issues but interrogate the formal and performative means by which they present their work to the public. Poems will be read within a wider history of social movements and civil liberties; and touch upon major historical events such as the AIDS crisis, Black liberation struggles, movements for feminist and 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, ecological and climate-change concerns, and current calls for prison abolition. We will touch upon poetic “schools” or “styles,” including the Poetics of Witness, persona poetry, the Black Arts Movement, and the Kootenay School of Writing.
It deals with illness care, individual health, and health insurance. It will take a comparative and historical approach. We will look at the genesis of Canadian healthcare, our benefits and those other countries provide (e.g., pharmacare, dental care). We will look at indirect contributors like childcare and basic income. We will examine the public-private debate. We will also take some novel approaches. One is that the university has an expanded role in the 21st century, one that involves public outreach, a role that includes healthcare. Recent academic literature on healthcare notes that it is nation-building. We will look at why. We will examine some cutting-edge ideas, like integrated care, the learning health system, the concept of customer-owners. We will explore whether our healthcare system needs to be anchored by ‘institutions of excellence’ and identify these. ” Research emphasizes that complex, entrenched problems, like government relations with Indigenous peoples or human impacts on the climate, involve interconnected systems and require approaches that cross disciplines and types of knowledge. The course examines the role of literary works (mostly 21st-century fiction) in addressing these issues of pressing concern to students as global citizens. Critical thinking, scholarly reading and database research are foundational skills that this course strengthens in order to prepare students for their writing in disciplines across the university. Through a wide survey of poems, we will investigate not only the contextual motivation for poets responding to political issues but interrogate the formal and performative means by which they present their work to the public. Poems will be read within a wider history of social movements and civil liberties; and touch upon major historical events such as the AIDS crisis, Black liberation struggles, movements for feminist and 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, ecological and climate-change concerns, and current calls for prison abolition. We will touch upon poetic “schools” or “styles,” including the Poetics of Witness, persona poetry, the Black Arts Movement, and the Kootenay School of Writing.
