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.

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:

Select two of the following courses:

ENGL 2037	Advanced Writing & Research: Feminist Crip Ethics	4.00 units
ENGL 2107	Advanced Writing & Research: Writing the Body	4.00 units
ENGL 2108	Advanced Writing & Research: Literary Monsters	4.00 units
ENGL 2109	Advanced Writing & Research: Politics of Body	4.00 units
ENGL 2701	Advanced Writing & Research: Literature & Psychoanalysis	4.00 units
ENGL 3107	Advanced Writing & Research: Writing the Body	4.00 units
ENGL 3108	Advanced Writing & Research: Literary Monsters	4.00 units
ENGL 3331	Expressive Writing	4.00 units
ENGL 3403/ENGL 4403	Fiction Writing	4.00 units
ENGL 3405/ENGL 4405	Poetry Writing	4.00 units
ENGL 3413	Spoken Word	4.00 units
ENGL 3701	Advanced Writing & Research: Literature & Psychoanalysis	4.00 units

Select one of the following courses:

GPH 1000	Introduction to Public Health	4.00 units
GPH 2600	Principles of Global Health	4.00 units
GPH 3100	Women's Health	4.00 units
GPH 3500	Global Environmental Health	4.00 units
GPH 4150	Global Health Issues in Violence and Social Justice	4.00 units
GPH 4100	Emerging Challenges in Global Public Health	4.00 units
GPH 4500	Global Health in Film	4.00 units
PHIL 2109	Healthcare Ethics and Equity	4.00 units
RLGN 3009	Life and Death	4.00 units

Select four units from the following:

ART 3178	Introduction to Clinical Art Therapy I	1.00 unit
PSY 3004	Psychology of Death & Dying	1.00 unit
PSY 3008	Healing Relationships	1.00 unit
PSY 3009	Stress Management	1.00 unit
PSY 3016	Health Campaigns and Persuasion	1.00 unit
PSY 3017	Positive Psychology	1.00 unit
PSY 3022	Psychology of Happiness	1.00 unit
PSY 3039	Addiction: Recovery issues	1.00 unit
PSY 3043	Psychology of Pregnancy	1.00 unit
PSY 3044	Suicide: Prevention & Intervention	1.00 unit
PSY 3061	Psychology of Monsters	1.00 unit
PSY 3063	Psychology of Hope	1.00 unit
PSY 3081	Behavioral Health	1.00 unit
	or
PSY 4005	Health Psychology	4.00 units

 

Total Credit Hours: 16