Recognizing Interdisciplinary Patterns: Medicine and Lusophone Literatures

Recognizing Interdisciplinary Patterns: Medicine and Lusophone Literatures

Issued by Florida International University (FIU)

Developed within the Department of Modern Languages and the College of Medicine, this badge recognizes fundamental knowledge on how medical content is represented in Portuguese and Brazilian literatures. By establishing connections between disciplines, earners can integrate scientific knowledge with poetic, philosophical, and ethical questioning. Earners recognize how disease emotionally impacts patients and can describe medical phenomena through metaphors, enhancing patient communication.

Skills

Earning Criteria

  • Successful completion of a written assessment of the connections between different disciplinary fields, medical sciences and literature.
  • Successful completion of an oral presentation of one of the heteronyms created by Fernando Pessoa.
  • Successful completion of an assessment addressing the learners understanding of various topics within Medicine and Lusophone Literatures.
  • Successful completion of a reflection paper where learners demonstrate how the competencies gained can be utilized to further personal, professional and/or academic goals.