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

Required:

HCS 3455

Health Humanities Seminar

1.00 unit

Select 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

Select two of the following courses:

CMS 3609	Health Communication	4.00 units
ENGL 3107/HCS 3106	Governing Bodies: Body Text and Contexts	4.00 units
ENGL 3203	Science Writing	4.00 units
ENGL 3701	Bodies of Humanities	4.00 units
ENGL 3702	Anatomy Theater	4.00 units
HCS 3130	Humanities of Science	4.00 units
RLGN 3009	Life and Death	4.00 units

Select three of the following 1-unit Psychology courses:

PSY 3004	Psychology of Death & Dying	1.00 unit
PSY 3008	Healing Relationships	1.00 unit
PSY 3017	Positive Psychology	1.00 unit
PSY 3022	Psychology of Happiness	1.00 unit
PSY 3063	Psychology of Hope	1.00 unit
PSY 3043	Psychology of Pregnancy	1.00 unit
PSY 3081	Behavioral Health	1.00 unit

Total Credit Hours: 16