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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 3455Health Humanities Seminar

1.00 unit

Select one of the following courses:

GPH 1000Introduction to Public Health

4.00 units
GPH 2600Principles of Global Health

4.00 units
GPH 3500Global Environmental Health

4.00 units
GPH 4150Global Health Issues in Violence and Social Justice

4.00 units

Select two of the following courses:

CMS 3609Health Communication

4.00 units
ENGL 3107Governing Bodies: Body Text and Contexts

4.00 units
ENGL 3108Monsters and Monstrosity

4.00 units
ENGL 3331Expressive Writing

4.00 units
ENGL 3701Bodies of Humanities

4.00 units
ENGL 3702Anatomy Theater

4.00 units
RLGN 3009Life and Death

4.00 units

Select 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

Total Credit Hours: 16