Health Humanities - Minor
The minor in health humanities provides a critically-engaged, humanities-led approach to understanding health and illness.
The cross-disciplinary field of health humanities is growing in popularity at the baccalaureate level as more and more students realize the importance of having a critically-engaged, humanities-led approach to understanding health and illness. This minor addresses the growing need by offering students a strong grounding in the humanistic study of health issues. Required courses develop skills of cross-disciplinary health studies in English, with students completing coursework such as narrative medicine and graphic medicine, literature and medicine, and health rhetoric. Students take additional coursework of electives, including courses that engage the ethics and philosophy of care, as well as social science and science electives. This minor is conceptualized with a critical framework: the coursework encourages students not only to take an interdisciplinary approach to understanding current and historical health-related issues, but also to critically reflect upon the methods of study they employ and the future of health humanities as a field.
Enrollment/Eligibility Criteria
Students with junior or senior classification should consult with their major and minor advisors before declaring the minor to ensure all requirements can be met.
Application Process
Students must complete an application. Additional information is available on the Health Humanities Minor website.