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 and Policies
    • HPR335 Critical Issues in Global Health (3)
    • PSC215 Issues in Public Policy (3)
    • HPR338 Social Determinants of Health (3)
    • WST216 Women’s Worlds: Global Issues in Women’s Studies (3)
  2. Category 2: Stigma, Survival, and Loss
    • REL309 The Holocaust (3)
    • FLIT200 Literature in Transition: Crisis of Identity (3)
    • LIT329 Imagining Trauma (3)
    • PSY219 Psychology of Mental Illness (3)
  3. Category 3: Gender, Sex, and Medicine
    • PHI320 Philosophy of Medicine (3)
    • PSY301 Human Sexuality (3)
    • REL336/PHI336/WST336 Sex, Love, and God (3)
    • HST215/WST215 Introduction to Women’s Studies (3)
  4. Category 4: Health, Society, and the Environment
    • HST104 The Human Place in Nature (3)
    • PSY391 Psychology and Culture (3)
    • HPR308 Environmental Health (3)
    • HST324 Global Environmental History (3)
  5. Category 5: People and Patients
    • PSY308 Health Psychology (3)
    • PHI321 Medical Ethics (3)
    • HPR305 Communicating Health (3)
    • LIT322 Medicine and Contemporary Literature and Film (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.