Why program this course now, while the pandemic is still ongoing?
A college or university is uniquely situated to bring perspective—depth, breadth, and dimension—to a present-day crisis, whatever that crisis might be. COVID 19 has upended almost every aspect of human life and presented all of us with a range of challenges that were unimaginable a year ago. These include challenges to our health and wellbeing, our livelihoods, education, housing, global supply chains, to name only a few. At PLU we have the capacity to tap colleagues that are not only living through the crisis themselves, they are also engaged with it intellectually from the unique vantage point of their area of expertise and able to provide explanations for information we receive from the media.
Can you share a couple of examples of how faculty members will be approaching the topic from different interdisciplinary perspectives?
For one, we know from the daily news that the U.S., as a nation, has been challenged by an ongoing struggle with public compliance with mask-wearing. While the media underscores the political reason for this struggle, the course lecture scheduled on November 24th, by two social psychologists, will apply core lessons from Social Psychology such as persuasion, compliance, social identity and prejudice to help understand why people fail to comply with seemingly simple pandemic health directives such as social distancing and wearing masks.
Similarly, the lecture on October 14 will shed light on the disproportionate economic and epidemiological impact that the pandemic is having in many parts of Native North America by considering the significance of this present moment in light of a centuries-long history of colonialism, epidemic disease, and contemporary efforts to reclaim tribal sovereignty and control over healthcare.
What do you think the alumni panel will add to the experience?
There are three things the panel will add to the experience. First, like the academic expertise of my faculty colleagues, we look forward to the insights that practitioners in the field of emergency medicine have regarding their hands-on experience throughout the pandemic. Second, it is incredibly valuable for students considering a career in health sciences to have the opportunity to hear first-hand about the challenges and opportunities the work of an ER physician entails. A panel like this, finally, creates a space for essential workers to reflect on, and tell stories about, their role as “essential workers.” This humanizes them in ways that the evening news often can’t.
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