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Courses

Industries, jobs and technologies change. The Humanities In Medicine program empowers you to focus broadly—develop a wide knowledge base—so you can see what’s coming, and be ready to lead the way. Below is a list of courses to get you started on your life’s story.

18 hours of courses work with the following distribution:

  • Required Core (3 hours): HMED 397 (Directed Experience in Health Care)
  • Humanities Courses (9 hours): Select from List of Approved Classes; at least 3 hours at 300-level or above; at least 2 departments represented
  • Elective Courses (6 hours): Choose from approved Humanities courses or approved Electives

Credits earned using the Pass/No Pass option do not count towards this minor.

Other courses, particularly special topics courses or honors courses with a relevant focus, may be applied toward the minor by permission of an HMED adviser or coordinator.

Undergraduate Catalogs

Required Core: HMED 397

HMED 397 (Directed Experience in Health Care. 3 credit hours) is the "capstone" course for the minor. It provides students with a structured opportunity to experience a health care setting, not only to explore possible career paths, but also to reflect on the complex social, economic and personal contexts of health care delivery in 21st century America.

In this course, students design a schedule for shadowing health care professionals, volunteering in a hospital, hospice or free clinic, or both. Students choose from a list of books to read about illness, health, suffering and healing in the American health care system. As they read and observe, students write regular journal entries about the intersections among their readings, their observations and their personal insights. A final project of the student's own design culminates the course, along with a self-assessment.

Because students set their own goals and deadlines, HMED 397 helps them to develop the skills for life-long learning that will enhance their careers and their lives.

Printable Minor requirements

Humanities Courses

9 hours

ANTH 422 Medical Anthropology
ANTH 472 Belief Systems: Animism toZombies
CLAS 233 Science in the Classical World
COMM 354 Health Communication
COMM 368 Communication and Aging
COMM 454 Communication and Health Disparities
ENGL 210I Illness & Health in Literature
FREN 388 Body Language: Love, Politics & the Self in French Literature
HIST 221 Science in History
HIST 228 History of Medicine in Western Society
HIST 320 History of American Medicine
HIST/WMNS 402 Sexuality in 19th & 20th Century America
HMED 396 Humanities in Medicine: Special Topics
PHIL 213 Medical Ethics
PHIL 317 Philosophy of Science
RELG 225 Science & Religion
RELG 351 Death, Immorality, and Transcendence in Asian Religions
WMNS 201 Introduction to LGBTQ/Sexuality Studies
WMNS 385 Women, Gender & Science

Elective Courses

GERO 200 Introduction to Gerontology
GERO 307 Death & Dying
GERO 435 Issues in Aging
GERO 442 Recreation Therapy: Intervention fo rthe Aging
GERO/PSYC 446 Psychology of Adult Development & Aging
GERO 447 Mental Health and Aging
GERO 450 Legal Aspects of Aging
GERO 455 Health Aspects of Aging
GERO 459 Disorders of Communication in Older Adults
GERO 467 Programs and Services for the Elderly
GERO 469 (SOCW 404) Working with Minority Elderly
GERO/SOCW 485 Hospice and Other Services for the Dying Patient/Family
PSYC 365 Addiction
PSYC 428 Health Psychology
PSYC/CYAF/EDPS/SOCI 471 Human Sexuality & Society
SOCI 252 Health, Medicine, and Society
SOCI 309 Drugs & Society
SOCI 353 Sociology of Health Care and Health Professions
SOCI 443 Sociology of Mental Health
SOCI/ETHN 454 Physical Health Disparities.