Health Humanities Minor
Description
The Health Humanities minor offers students a pathway to explore the intersection of the arts, humanities, and health sciences. Students take courses that improve observation skills, examine the human condition in relation to health, illness, and healing, and engage with the history and culture of medicine.
Why take this Minor?
The Health Humanities minor provides a unique interdisciplinary exploration of illness, public health, policy, access, and caregiving through the lenses of the arts, humanities, and social sciences. This program equips students with essential transferable skills for health science careers, making it a valuable addition to your education. By diversifying your academic background, you will enhance your appeal to healthcare employers across various fields, including clinical care, management, insurance, marketing, research, health informatics, and sales. It also invites non-health students to explore medicine and science through a humanistic lens, fostering a deeper understanding of the human experience in health contexts.
Program Student Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of how cultural, social, and historical perspectives influence the history of health and medicine, as well as individual health outcomes.
- Utilize the skills and knowledge acquired in minor courses to critically examine and reflect on complex ethical, social, and equity issues in health, healthcare, health policy, and research.
- Develop effective communication skills (written, oral, and visual) across multiple disciplines to better convey ideas about health and illness in both professional and personal caregiving contexts.
What are some majors that would benefit from a Health Humanities minor?
Nursing, medicine, nutrition, speech language pathology and communication disorders, social work, sociology, bioethics, biotech, biochemistry, pharmaceuticals, education, psychology, public health, environmental sciences, criminal justice, human resources, and health business & administration.