Health Humanities (Minor)
Health Humanities is an interdisciplinary minor that builds bridges between health, humanities, literature, the arts, and psychology. Its mission is to provide students with opportunities for holistic insight into the multiple dimensions of healing. Courses allow students to pursue the minor in consort with their chosen major. The 1-unit Health Humanities Seminar brings students together to explore connections between science, the arts, and humanities in the context of health and well-being.
Program Learning Outcomes
Students will demonstrate:
- How the arts and humanities inform our understanding of illness and health,
- The role that psychology and ethics plays in health,
- Apply creative thinking and artistic practice in understanding illness and health in communities and in oneself.
Requirements
Student selects three of the following 1-unit Psychology courses.
Student selects one of the following courses.
GPH 1000 | Foundations of Global Public Health | 4.00 units |
GPH 3600 | Principles of Global Health | 4.00 units |
GPH 4150 | Global Health Issues in Violence and Social Justice | 4.00 units |
Student selects two of the following courses.
Student takes
HCS 3455 | Health Humanities Seminar | 1.00 unit |
Total Credit Hours: 16