Medical Humanities Minor

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Student Learning Outcomes for Medical Humanities Minor:

Students will be able to:

Demonstrate skills and understandings of narrative structure and narrative listening;
Discuss and critique the socially-constructed and culturally-situated natures of health, care, illness, wellness, disability, healing, and medicine as socially-constructed systems and encounters;
Demonstrate practices, understandings, and counseling skills informed by cultural humility, curiosity, and intelligence;
Discuss the applications of ethics to dilemmas of health, care, illness, wellness, disability, healing, and medicine; and,
Integrate understandings of medical/health humanities into personal narratives and statements.

Medical Humanities Course Requirements

HM 300 - Community-Centered Medical Humanities
HM 205 - HUM Introduction to Medical Humanities
One English Literature course limited to:
EN 200 - WCH British Literature and Culture I: 550 – 1660
EN 201 - WCH British Literature and Culture II: 1660 – Present Day
EN 202 - HUM American Literature and Culture I: Beginnings – 1865
EN 203 - HUM American Literature and Culture II: 1866 – Present Day
EN 210 - WCH British Literature, Focus Course
EN 212 - HUM American Literature, Focus Course
EN 214 - NCH World Literature, Focus Course
EN 216 - HUM Multicultural Literature, Focus Course
EN 232 - HUM Graphic Medicine
EN 263 - CE Young Adult Literature
EN 310 - Genres
EN 312 - Themes
EN 314 - Poetry
EN 316 - Prose
EN 318 - Drama
EN 320 - William Shakespeare
EN 410 - British Authors
EN 412 - American Authors
EN 414 - World Authors
One Philosophy or Religious Studies elective, limited to:
PH 235 - HUM Bioethics
PH 255B - Advanced Ethics: Medicine
PH 265 - HUM Science and Values
REL 290 - NCH Dharma Traditions: Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and Sikh
REL 320 - Philosophy of Religion (PH 320)
One Language, Trauma-Informed, or Health-Related Cultural Studies elective, limited to:

Completion of a 200-level or above language course*
MU 225 - NCH Silk Road Soundscapes of Compassion, Healing, and Care
WGS 205 - WCH Writing Trauma and Resilience
One course in counseling skills:
SW 280 - Multicultural Counseling Skills or
PSY 355 - Counseling Psychology
* Approved 11/21/23 - Language courses limited to CHN 211, CHN 212, FR 211, FR 212, FR 311, GER 211, GER 212, GER 311, JA 211, JA 212, JA 311, JA 312, SP 211, SP 212, SP 312.