Healthcare and Medical Humanities, Bachelor of Arts

The undergraduate interdisciplinary program in Healthcare and Medical Humanities (HCMH) engages in the humanistic study of social, ethical, and spiritual questions of health, illness, and caregiving. Students take classes in an array of departments, including literature, philosophy, psychology, and fine arts.Students learn to think critically and communicate effectively about social and other factors affecting healthcare. Students completing the major in Healthcare and Medical Humanities, aided by coursework in the physical sciences, will find themselves uniquely situated to apply for positions in public health, health education, healthcare administration, and clinical research. Given the program’s holistic approach to healthcare, students majoring in nursing, sociology and psychology may find Healthcare and Medical Humanities a fitting second major or minor. HCMH majors may also wish to pursue graduate studies in medicine, social work, physical therapy, or mental health.

Degree Requirements

Degree Requirements

COM 220	Interpersonal Communication	3
GS 240	Global Health	3
HSC 222	Narrative Medicine	3
PHI 205	Bioethics	3
	OR
PHI 230	Healthcare Ethics	3
PSY 110	Introduction to Psychology	3
	OR
SOC 120	Introduction to Sociology	3
RLS 223	Death and Dying	3
HUM 300	Healthcare and Medical Humanities Service Project	3

Healthcare and Medical Humanities Electives

One additional course in Ethical Thinking. Choose from any ETH-designated class in Environmental Studies,   Philosophy, or Religion Studies.

One course in Close Reading. Choose from any LIT-designated class at the 300-level in English, Religion Studies, Spanish, or Women’s Studies, or AWS 305: Ancient Medicine.

One course in Visual Analysis. Choose from any course in Art History, Film, PHI 335: Aesthetics, or WS 321:  Feminist Theory: Visual Culture.

One course in Human Problems, Experiences, and Perspectives. Choose from any 200-level or higher course in Sociology; 200-level or higher non-laboratory course in Psychology; or any class from the list below:

• ENG 333 Multicultural Environmental Lit [OL]
• ENG 360 Language and Culture [OL]
• PHI 206 Philosophy of Religion
• RLS 216: Women & Religious Traditions
• RLS 217: American Spiritualities
• RLS 248: What is Religion?
• RLS 280: Martin Luther King Travel Seminar

• SPN 228 Medical Spanish
• SPN 323/T: Hispanic Coloniality
• WS 222:Feminist Theories & Perspectives

One course in Executing/Embodying Perspectives. Choose from any course in Studio Art, Creative Writing, or  Dance Performance/Choreography.