2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Minor in Health Humanities

Health Humanities examines health and related issues through history, literature, philosophy, and other humanistic disciplines. Students who take this Minor will learn about a range of topics such as disability, death, disease, fitness, and wellness. Emphasis will be on the human experience of these matters, their variability across cultures, the ethical issues involved, and representations of them in literature or other media. Students will complete a capstone or thesis project in addition to an introductory course and three electives.

15 credits

Required Courses, 6 credits

HHUM 200Introduction to Health Humanities

3

HHUM 400Health Humanities Capstone

3

Electives, 9 credits from

Select three courses from the list of electives. A maximum of two electives may be from your major.

ENG 495Disability Studies

3

HHUM 300Special Topics in Health Humanities

3

HHUM 350Rhetoric of Health and Medicine

3

HSC 220Population, Race, and Culture in Public Health

3

HSC 371Death and Dying

3

HSC 372Women and Health

3

PHIL 235Bioethics

3

PHIL 415Topics in Neurophilosophy

3

SOC 341Sociology of Health and Illness

3

CC 102Latin and Greek Based Bio-scientific Terminology

3

COMM 335Communication and Health

3

ANTH 207Introduction to Medical Anthropology

3

ANTH 402Anthropology of Drug Use

3

SP 338Spanish for Professions

3-6

Total Credit Hours: 15