Mar 28, 2024  
2022-2023 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2022-2023 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Health and Medical Humanities Minor


The Health and Medical Humanities Minor is earned through an interdisciplinary series of courses and teaches students how to use the skills and interpretive methods of the humanities, social sciences, and arts to consider topics related to human health and medicine. The Health and Medical Humanities can allow future medical professionals to gain new insight into their profession; can allow those in the humanities and social sciences to develop interdisciplinary skills to enhance their coursework and help them envision new career paths; and can allow all students to gain insight into their own experiences as people who will inevitably experience their own and loved ones’ illnesses, disabilities, and medical treatment. 

Academic Policies and Requirements for Minors:

Hours to Minor: 18 hours

Curriculum:


Students will take 9 hours of required core courses on the Health and Medical Humanities, as well as 9 hours of related elective courses.

Required courses:


Note:


*PHI 356, 435, and 452 can only count as electives if they are not used above to fulfill the Ethics requirement in “Required Courses”; IDS 371 can count towards a student’s elective hours only if the student takes more than the 3 hours of IDS 371 that are required

 

Several upper-level survey and special topics courses may also count towards the minor if their content in the given semester is based on topics related to the Health and Medical Humanities. These include courses offered through the English, History, Criminal Justice, Communication Studies, and Sociology programs. These courses may be cross-listed with IDS 371. Please consult the Health and Medical Humanities program director to see about anticipated future course offerings in these and other fields.