Academic Catalog 2024-25

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. 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 3100Women's Health

4.00 units

GPH 3500Global Environmental Health

4.00 units

GPH 4150Global Health Issues in Violence and Social Justice

4.00 units

GPH 4100Emerging Challenges in Global Public Health

4.00 units

GPH 4500Global Health in Film

4.00 units

Select two of the following courses:

CMS 3609Health Communication

4.00 units

ENGL 3038Feminist Disability Ethics in Literature

4.00 units

ENGL 3107Governing Bodies: Body Text and Contexts

4.00 units

ENGL 3108Monsters and Monstrosity

4.00 units

ENGL 3109Politics of the Body in Motion

3.00 units

ENGL 3331Expressive Writing

4.00 units

ENGL 3701Bodies of Humanities

4.00 units

ENGL 3702Anatomy Theater

4.00 units

PHIL 2109Healthcare Ethics and Equity

4.00 units

RLGN 3009Life and Death

4.00 units

Select three of the following courses:

ART 3178Introduction to Clinical Art Therapy I

1.00 unit

PSY 3004Psychology of Death & Dying

1.00 unit

PSY 3008Healing Relationships

1.00 unit

PSY 3009Stress Management

1.00 unit

PSY 3016Health Campaigns and Persuasion

1.00 unit

PSY 3017Positive Psychology

1.00 unit

PSY 3022Psychology of Happiness

1.00 unit

PSY 3039Addiction: Recovery issues

1.00 unit

PSY 3043Psychology of Pregnancy

1.00 unit

PSY 3044Suicide: Prevention & Intervention

1.00 unit

PSY 3061Psychology of Monsters

1.00 unit

PSY 3063Psychology of Hope

1.00 unit

PSY 3081Behavioral Health

1.00 unit

PSY 4005Health Psychology

4.00 units

Total Credit Hours: 16