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. The 1-unit Health Humanities Seminar brings students together to explore connections between science, the arts, and humanities in the context of health and well-being.

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:

HCS 3455

Health Humanities Seminar

1.00 unit

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

Select two of the following courses:

CMS 3609	Health Communication	4.00 units
ENGL 3038	Feminist Disability Ethics in Literature	4.00 units
ENGL 3107	Governing Bodies: Body Text and Contexts	4.00 units
ENGL 3108	Monsters and Monstrosity	4.00 units
ENGL 3109	Politics of the Body in Motion	3.00 units
ENGL 3331	Expressive Writing	4.00 units
ENGL 3701	Bodies of Humanities	4.00 units
ENGL 3702	Anatomy Theater	4.00 units
PHIL 2109	Healthcare Ethics and Equity	4.00 units
RLGN 3009	Life and Death	4.00 units

Select three of the following courses:

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
PSY 4005	Health Psychology	4.00 units

Total Credit Hours: 16