EPIC

Courses

EPIC 135: Sustainability Living Learning

Credits 1
This course encourages residents of Living Learning Communities to explore topics associated with their themed community in greater depth. In particular, students will engage both campus activities (as the extra-curricular component) while also engaging in high-impact pedagogical practices--whether reading circles or final projects in the community.

EPIC 171: Professional Foundations

Credits 1
Building on the design approach to career and vocational discernment introduced in Earlham seminar courses, students will apply life-design principles to their EPIC journey and their plans for post-graduation activities. The course includes study of: career discernment, professionalism, work-related values, and professional development. This course is a required prerequisite for all funded internships.

EPIC 172: EPIC Foundations

Credits 1
The Professional Foundations class is open to all students of any major who are desiring to improve their vocational discernment and professional application skills. Through this 7-week class, we will cover resume and cover letter crafting, interview best practices, building connections with current professionals, and developing short and long-term vocational goals.

EPIC 241: Intercultural Competence in Healthcare

Credits 3

This on-campus May term program provides both a curricular and an experiential component for students early in their pre-health career. The course will be staffed by faculty teaching 1-2 day modules on a diverse array of topics that prepare a student holistically for future work in health care in a diverse country. These modules will include topics such as medical ethics, multi-dimensional intercultural competence, basic Spanish, and basic medical procedures (blood pressure,…) for two weeks while on the EC campus.  In the final week, students will live in Indianapolis and volunteer/shadow a variety of health professions at Alivio Medical Center (https://aliviohealth.com/), which is a bi-lingual medical facility.

EPIC 242: Community Health & Medicine

Credits 1
Students will learn medical, technical and clinical competencies from a variety of health care professionals with the goal of becoming a trained Health Coach. This course serves as a required pre-program orientation course for students participating in the partnered Center for Global Health and Reid Hospital Community Medicine Program.

EPIC 245: Practicum in Community Health and Medicine

Credits 1
Students will serve as Health Coaches to matched Richmond area community members under the supervision of the Reid Hospital Community Medicine Partners. Students will meet clients once per week and regularly report to the partner team.

EPIC 271: Fellowship Foundations

Credits 1

Applying for fellowship funding can be daunting: few of us have prior experience in the best ways to approach this endeavor. In this course, students will engage in vocational discernment by learning strategies that will maximize the possibilities of receiving competitive funding.

EPIC 314: Politics and Activism in the Mexico/U.S. Borderlands

Credits 4
This class is constructed around a series of online webinars and seminars focused on current events and community organizing in the U.S./Mexico border region. Weekly webinars will afford an opportunity to learn from activists and practitioners on the frontlines of social justice struggles throughout Mexico and the United States and will be complemented by seminar sessions for discussion.