Medical and Health Humanities minor

Medical and Health Humanities is an interdisciplinary program studying historical, philosophical, literary, linguistic, and religious issues in health and medicine through topics such as the history of medicine, medical racism, disability studies, bioethics, and narrative medicine. Students will learn not only how cultural and social contexts determine individual health and well-being but also how medicine and health care are practiced both within and outside dominant biomedical and public health paradigms.

Courses

15 credit hours

Intro Course

3 hours

Must take one of the following:

ENGL 1XX Intro to Medical and Health Humanities OR
ENGL 135 Literature & Medicine

Electives

Take four 3 credit hour electives. At least 3 courses (9 credit hours) must be taken at the 200 level or above.

ASLN 291 Deafness Culture & Community§
HIST 199: History of Native American Health*
HIST 199: Disability History*
HIST 199: Who Gets Health Care? *
ENGL 1XX Intro to Medical and Health Humanities
ENGL 135 Literature & Medicine
ENGL 205 Lit & Moral Imagination: Early American Medicine*
ENGL 205 Lit & Moral: Disability in Literature*
ENGL 205 Lit & Moral: Apocalypses and Revelations*
ENGL 205 Lit & Moral: Health, Activism, Community*
ENGL 312 Technical & Scientific Writing
ENGL 316 Writing Illness & Health
ENGL 335 Doctors in Lit & Culture
ENGL 350 The Weird Nineteenth Century 4
GDST 208 Introduction to Disability Studies
GDST 258/THEO 258 Race, Religion and Healing
GDST 350/HIST 305 Medical Racism
HIST 237 Epidemics in America
HIST 319 Health and Medicine in Britain
PHIL 200 Philosophical Perspectives: Humans, Animals, Machines*
PHIL 329 Bioethics
SOCI 1XX Comparative Healthcare Systems
SPAN 332 Spanish in Community Health Settings§
SPAN 3XX Latino Food, Identity & Health§
THEO 312 Christian Health Care Ethics
THEO 316 Disability and Theology
THEO 340 Health, Religions, Ethics
THEO 327 Religion and Bioethics
THEO 372 Disability, Ethics, and Theology
THEO 404 Religion, Ethics and Professional Practice
THEO 416 Theology and Trauma

Notes

Courses must come from at least 3 of the Humanities disciplines (Classics & Modern Languages [ASLN & SPAN], ENGL, GDST, HIST, PHIL, THEO).
Courses may double-count for the minor and core curriculum requirements as appropriate.
* HIST 199, ENGL 205, and PHIL 200 may only be taken once, regardless of focus.
§ This course has a pre-requisite or pre-requisites beyond the core curriculum and the requirements for the Medical and Health Humanities minor. Consult the course schedule or catalog for details.
Students interested in the 300-level Spanish courses must complete Spanish 202 and Spanish 300 beyond the core curriculum language requirement.
Students must attain a 2.000 average in the course work of the minor