Medical Humanities Minor

The interdisciplinary minor in Medical Humanities uses the methods and tools of analysis from ethics, literature, religious studies, and related fields to examine issues of healthcare, medicine, and healing. Students use philosophical, religious, and literary sources to explore how people make meaning in these healthcare-related environments, touching on birth, disease, disability, recovery, and end of life. By learning how great works of the humanities configure suffering and renewal, students prepare themselves to enter fields of public health, nursing, medicine, and related fields with a richer sense of the human story at its most troubling, potent, and potentially transcendent episodes in life.

Core – 9 s.h.

PHIL 2277 – Biomedical Ethics
RELI 1200 – Introduction to the Medical Humanities
ENGL 3820 – Scientific Writing
RELI 2360 – Religion and Healthcare

Electives – 9 s.h.

Choose 3 courses from the following:

COMM 3190 – Health Communication
ENGL 3040 – Introduction to Professional Writing
ENGL 3570 – American Folklore
ENGL 3860 – Introduction to Creative Nonfiction Writing
PHIL 1700 – Philosophy of Death and Dying
PHIL 2261 – Introduction to Philosophy of Science
PHIL 3281 – Introduction to Philosophical Ethics in the Health Care Professions
RELI 2340 – Religion and Science
RELI 2350 – Religion and Sexuality
SPAN 3110 – Spanish for the Health Professions
TEXT 3001 – Transformative Texts and Ideas of Science

For more information, please contact the Program Director.