Medical Humanities Minor

Requirements: 18 Credits

3 Credits:

  • PHI102: Medicine, Culture and the Self: Introduction to Medical Humanities (3)

15 Credits:

Select ONE course from each of the five following categories:

  1.  Category 1: People, Patients, and Policy
    • PHI321: Medical Ethics (add in PHI320 Bioethics) (3)
    • PSC215: Issues in Public Policy (3)
    • PSY308: Health Psychology (3)
  2. Category 2: Global Health, Global Self
    • HST324: Global Environmental History (3)
    • WST216/IND216: Women’s Worlds: Global Issues in Women’s Studies (3)
    • HPR335: Critical Issues in Global Health (3)
    • HST104/IND104: The Human Place in Nature (3)
  3. Category 3: Hurting and Healing at the Margins
    • PHI336: Witches, Cripples, and Other Monsters (3)
    • LIT329: Imagining Trauma (3)
    • PSY219: Psychology of Mental Illness (3)
  4. Category 4: Gender, Culture, and the Self
    • HST215/WST215: Introduction to Women’s Studies (3)
    • PSY301: Human Sexuality (3)
    • PSY391: Psychology and Culture (3)
    • REL336/PHI336/WST336: Sex, Love, and God (3)
  5. Category 5: Suffering, Survival, and Loss
    • REL309: The Holocaust (3)
    • LIT347: Plague and Pandemics in Literature (3)
    • LIT322: Medicine and Contemporary Literature and Film (3)
    • FLT200: Literature in Transition: Crisis of Identity (3)

 NOTE: *Any other course offered by the Humanities and the Arts departments that falls under the scope of Medical Humanities is eligible with the permission of the Medical Humanities Minor Program director.