Medical and Health Humanities
Minor in Medical and Health Humanities - 4 units
Minor Requirements: Core = 4 units, Collateral = 0 units, Total = 4 units
Medicine, emerging technologies, health, disability, and illness are central to culture. They are in a dynamic mutual relationship with society, politics, and values. The Medical and Health Humanities minor will take a critical approach to medicine, drawing on humanistic tools, including art, conceptual analysis, creative writing, critical theory, literary criticism and analysis, discourse analysis, history, narrative approaches to the clinical encounter, and psychoanalysis.
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| MEDH 101 | Introduction to Medical and Health Humanities | 1 |
| Select one from the following: | 1 | |
| Literature and Medicine | ||
| Bio-Medical Ethics | ||
| Queer Theory | ||
| Two electives: one from the Humanities Divsion and one from the Natural Sciences or Social Sciences Division | 2 | |
Humanities Division 1 | ||
| Art About | ||
| Health Communication | ||
| Literature and Medicine | ||
| Seminar in a Literary Period (19th Century British Literature: Drusg and Monsters) | ||
| Now Is the Time of Monsters! Politics and Psychoanalysis | ||
| Immigration in American History: 1600 to Present | ||
| African American History | ||
| Gender in American History, 1800 to Present | ||
| China and America: From the Opium Wars to General Tso's Chicken | ||
| The French Revolution, 1770-1815: The Enlightenment, Terror, and Napoleon | ||
| Germany in War and Revolution: From the Second Empire to the Third Reich | ||
| Nazi Germany: History, Politics, and Culture | ||
| The Holocaust | ||
| Sex, Sexuality, and Socialism in Eastern Europe | ||
| Gender, War, and Violence in 20th Century Eastern Europe | ||
| American Women's History | ||
| Feminist Philosophy | ||
| Philosophy of Race | ||
| Bio-Medical Ethics | ||
| Society and the Supernatural in Asia | ||
Natural Sciences and Social Sciences Divisions 1 | ||
| Genes, Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering | ||
| The Biological Basis of Behavior | ||
| Health Economics | ||
| Cross-Cultural Aspects of Health Behavior | ||
| Social Psychology | ||
| Introduction to Epidemiology | ||
| Global Health | ||
| Examining a Pandemic: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Tuberculosis | ||
| Medicine and Health in Society | ||
| Reflection 2 | 0 | |
| Total Units | 4 | |
- 1
Courses outside this list can be approved by the MEDH director.
- 2
Summative Reflection to be submitted with the students’ Senior Project (completed in the student's home department). The Reflection will be presented to and approved by the MEDH Director and/or the program committee.