Academic Catalog 2019-20

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:

  1. How the arts and humanities inform our understanding of illness and health,
  2. The role that psychology and ethics plays in health,
  3. 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.

PSY 3004Psychology of Death & Dying

1.00 unit

PSY 3008Healing Relationships

1.00 unit

PSY 3017Positive Psychology

1.00 unit

PSY 3022Psychology of Happiness

1.00 unit

PSY 3063Psychology of Hope

1.00 unit

PSY 3043Psychology of Pregnancy

1.00 unit

PSY 3081Behavioral Health

1.00 unit

Student selects one of the following courses.

GPH 1000Foundations of Global Public Health

4.00 units

GPH 3600Principles of Global Health

4.00 units

GPH 4150Global Health Issues in Violence and Social Justice

4.00 units

Student selects two of the following courses.

HCS 3130Humanities of Science

4.00 units

ENGL 3203Science Writing

4.00 units

RLGN 3009Life and Death

4.00 units

Student takes

HCS 3455Health Humanities Seminar

1.00 unit

Total Credit Hours: 16