HUMN160 Global Religion and Culture

Rather than completing quizzes or short essay interactions, as we have done in previous modules, in this final course segment you are to bring together some of the essential elements we have been studying in a final essay. you are welcome to write more if you wish). Please address the following:

a) Summarize your own current beliefs and viewpoints with respect to religion; you may include such things as your particular faith profession, or the absence of any particular faith tradition with respect to yourself; whether there are particular doctrines of viewpoints that have influenced you, and any religions literature that may have influenced you (if this fits your particular viewpoint).

b) Using what you have prepared in part (a), now explain in your own words how worldview, culture and religion may interconnect with each other.

c) Choose a certain culture covered in this course and discuss how that culture relates in specific ways to the religion that predominates within it. Provide multiple examples, including how they relate within in a health care treatment environment.

d) Select one religious tradition presented in this course which is different from whatever you wrote about in part (a), identifying beliefs and practices that are characteristic of that religion.

e) Then, identify at least three ways in which you might adjust your care of that person in a health care setting (or other environment, if that pertains to your educational track) in light of the cultural competence you are acquiring via this course (or other studies you have done).