COM LIT 182Balancing Act: Comparative Approaches to Wellness, Health, and Medical Practice
Comparative Literature · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Designed for students interested in health professions or theories of wellness. Study presents a triangulated exploration of Ayurveda, Native healing practices, and Western medicine using humanistic methods of analyses and comparison. Consideration of how different and evolving notions of balance in each tradition structure medical practice and affect care. A final project draws upon these comparative analyses to explore contemporary medical practice in one of the three traditions. Students are expected to balance their findings within the triangulated comparison and acknowledge the recent proliferation of integrative and complementary approaches in Western medicine.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
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