Student ID:__________________________ Student Name:_______________________ Adviser Name:_______________________ Bulletin: 2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin Program: Medical Humanities Minor Minimum Credits Required:__________________

Medical Humanities Minor

College of Liberal Arts >> English 

18 hours; 2.0 minor GPA required

The Medical Humanities minor will not only emphasize analytical, critical thinking, and research skills to empower students across the curriculum, but also engage cross-cultural, empathetic, and imaginative skills. Pre-professional (e.g., pre-medicine, pre-dentistry, pre-pharmacy) and health professions (e.g., nursing, occupational therapy, radiologic and imaging science) students typically engage in data gathering, research, and analysis to prepare for professional practice; however, emphasis on ethical analysis that humanistic approaches provide will enrich their learning in valuable ways. Medical Humanities offers students opportunities to broaden their audiences, contexts, purposes, and consider transhistorical, cross-cultural concerns from human-centered, multicultural perspectives. Additionally, the Medical Humanities minor will help students broaden the scope of their studies, emphasizing empathetic and holistic approaches to patient care that consider culturally specific treatments at the core of ethical patient care.

Required Courses (6 hours)

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
HUM 203 - Introduction to Humanities

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing - World Languages and Culture


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
HUM 304 - Medical Humanities

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-World Languages and Culture; World Language and Culture (BS); Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3

Electives (12 hours)

At least one course must be 300-level.

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
CMST 327 - Communication and Healthcare
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
ENG 319 - Fundamentals of Grant Writing

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
GERO 215 - Introduction to Global Aging and Health Care

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-World Languages and Culture; Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
GNDR 222 - The Body in Art and Culture

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-World Language and Culture; Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
IPH 356 - Ethics and Healthcare in a Pluralistic Society

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Moral and Ethical Reasoning; Embedded Experience-Diversity


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
PHIL 201 - Introduction to Ethics

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Moral and Ethical Reasoning; Embedded Experience-Diversity


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
PSY 201 - Introduction to Psychology

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Social Inquiry; Social Science-BS


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
PSY 261 - Lifespan Developmental Psychology
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
PSY 273 - Social Psychology
Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
PSY 298 - Human Sexuality
Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
SOC 321 - Sociological Aspects of Aging
Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
SOCW 242 - Introduction to Substance Abuse and Addictive Disorders
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
WLC 155 - Cultural Awareness

USI Core 39: World Language and Culture (BS); Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Summer
Credits: 3

 

HUM 350 - History of Philosophy I  or

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
PHIL 350 - History of Philosophy I

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3

 

HUM 351 - History of Philosophy II  or

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
PHIL 351 - History of Philosophy II

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3

 

SOC 343 - Death, Dying, and Bereavement  or
Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
GERO 343 - Death, Dying, and Bereavement
Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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