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.