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Oct 23, 2026
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IHH 2103 - Spirituality and Healing
Credits: 3
Catalog Description
This course introduces students to the relationships between belief, spirituality, and healing. Students will identify personal core beliefs and values and demonstrate an understanding of the cultural aspects of healing, spirituality, and ritual. The course includes an exploration of the spiritual components of the illness or disease experience and the life-changing nature of a chronic or terminal illness. Research on how prayer, religious activity, and spiritual beliefs affect the healing process is evaluated. Spirituality in patient-centered healthcare models is discussed.
Recommended Skills, Abilities, or Coursework: IHH 1100
Additional fee to student: No
Learner Outcomes
- Identify core beliefs and values and show how they affect personal relationships and lifestyles, the global environment, and service to self, others and humanity.
- Explore the effect of spiritual beliefs and meditation, prayer, rituals, and sacred spaces on healing.
- Explain the differences between spirituality and religion.
- Demonstrate an understanding of cultural aspects of healing, spirituality and ritual.
- Analyze current literature supporting intercessory prayer as a means of non-local healing.
- Explain how shadow aspects and forgiveness of self and others affects the healing process.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the meaning of illness and the nature of life-changing aspects of a chronic or terminal illness.
- Explain the spiritual components of an illness or disease experience.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the spiritual aspects of grief and loss.
- Review current research on how prayer, religious activity, and spiritual beliefs affect the healing process.
Major Areas of Course Content
- Core beliefs and values related to personal relationships and lifestyles, the global environment, and service to self, others and humanity. The effect of spiritual beliefs, meditation, prayer, rituals, and sacred spaces on healing.
- Spirituality versus religion
- Cultural aspects of healing, spirituality and ritual
- Current literature supporting intercessory prayer as a means of non-local healing
- Shadow aspects and forgiveness of self and others in the healing process
- The meaning of illness and the nature of life-changing aspects of a chronic or terminal illness. The spiritual components of an illness or disease experience.
- Spiritual aspects of grief and loss
- Current research on prayer, religious activity, and spiritual beliefs and the healing process
Credit for Prior Learning Options
No credit for prior learning option is available for this course.
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