Humanities for Health and Medical Professionals Minor

Health and medicine are not just technical or narrowly scientific exercises; they are also humanistic, social, cultural, and historical practices. Practitioners, and especially leaders, in the rapidly growing health care industry need to understand how health care and medical practice interact with lived experience and the resulting ethical, normative, cultural, economic, global, and social contexts that affect the health and medicine fields. This minor will provide students with a substantive overview of the intersection of the liberal arts, the social and behavioral sciences, and healthcare and medicine.

Required Courses (12 credits)

HIST 213 topic must be “History of Medicine”

MST 401 - Seminar in Multidisciplinary Studies 1-3 Credits
PHIL 302 - Medical Ethics 3 Credits
SOC 471 - Medical Sociology 3 Credits
HIST 213 - Topics in History 3 Credits

Electives (9 credits)

Select one course from each of the following sections:

Patient and Provider Experience

AHS 305 - Society and Aging 3 Credits
ATTR 413 - Biomedical Ethics 3 Credits
COMM 326 - Introduction to Health Communication 3 Credits
COMM 483 - Gender Communication 3 Credits
ENVI 442 - Medical Anthropology 3 Credits
ENVI 458 - Medical Geology 3 Credits
GNDR 301 - Gender, Race, Nation 3 Credits
HRD 355 - Work-Life Integration 3 Credits
HRD 480 - Industrial Organizational Psychology 3 Credits
PHIL 426 - Bioethics of Genome Science 3 Credits
PSY 240 - Psychology of Health Behavior 3 Credits
PSY 338 - Psychology of Women 3 Credits
PSY 414 - Motivation and Behavior 3 Credits
PSY 458 - Psychopharmacology 3 Credits
SOC 424 - Sociology of Mental Health and Illness 3 Credits

Policy Issues

AHS 417 topic must be “Health Policy & Emerging Issues”

AHS 417 - Special Subjects in Applied Health Sciences 1-4 Credits
ECON 302 - Economics of Health and Medical Care 3 Credits
ENVI 461 - Environmental Justice 3 Credits
ENVI 462 - Ethics and the Environment 3 Credits
INS 340 - Introduction to Risk and Insurance 3 Credits
PHIL 201 - Ethics and the Good Life 3 Credits
PHIL 353 - Environmental Ethics 3 Credits
PSY 321 - Diversity & Ethics in Psychology 3 Credits
SFTY 314 - Industrial Health and Safety Legislation 3 Credits
SOC 472 - Families in Later Life 3 Credits
SOWK 240 - Family and Child Welfare 3 Credits

Social Organizations of Medicine/Healthcare

AHS 220 - Public Health Concepts 3 Credits
AHS 444 - Public Health Administration & Policy 3 Credits
BUS 204 - Ethics in Organizations 3 Credits
HRD 495 - Contemporary Issues in Human Resource Development 1-3 Credits
INS 342 - Health Insurance 3 Credits
PSCI 330 - Introduction to Public Administration 3 Credits
SOC 421 - Sociology of Aging and Retirement 3 Credits
SOWK 130 - Introduction to the Fields of Social Welfare 3 Credits

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