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 2.00 credits.
HM 205 - HUM Introduction to Medical Humanities 4.00 credits.
One English Literature course limited to:
EN 200 - WCH British Literature and Culture I: 550 – 1660 4.00 credits.
EN 201 - WCH British Literature and Culture II: 1660 – Present Day 4.00 credits.
EN 202 - HUM American Literature and Culture I: Beginnings – 1865 4.00 credits.
EN 203 - HUM American Literature and Culture II: 1866 – Present Day 4.00 credits.
EN 210 - WCH British Literature, Focus Course 4.00 credits.
EN 212 - HUM American Literature, Focus Course 4.00 credits.
EN 214 - NCH World Literature, Focus Course 4.00 credits.
EN 216 - HUM Multicultural Literature, Focus Course 4.00 credits.
EN 232 - HUM Graphic Medicine 4.00 credits.
EN 263 - CE Young Adult Literature 4.00 credits.
EN 310 - Genres 4.00 credits.
EN 312 - Themes 4.00 credits.
EN 314 - Poetry 4.00 credits.
EN 316 - Prose 4.00 credits.
EN 318 - Drama 4.00 credits.
EN 320 - William Shakespeare 4.00 credits.
EN 410 - British Authors 4.00 credits.
EN 412 - American Authors 4.00 credits.
EN 414 - World Authors 4.00 credits.
One Philosophy or Religious Studies elective, limited to:
PH 235 - HUM Bioethics 4.00 credits.
PH 255B - Advanced Ethics: Medicine 4.00 credits.
PH 265 - HUM Science and Values 4.00 credits.
REL 290 - NCH Dharma Traditions: Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and Sikh 4.00 credits.
REL 320 - Philosophy of Religion (PH 320) 4.00 credits.
One Language, Trauma-Informed, or Health-Related Cultural Studies elective, limited to:
CHN 211 - PLO Intermediate Chinese I 4.00 credits.
CHN 212 - PLO Intermediate Chinese II 4.00 credits.
FR 211 - PLO Intermediate French I 4.00 credits.
FR 212 - PLO Intermediate French II 4.00 credits.
FR 311 - Making of Modern French Society 4.00 credits.
GER 211 - PLO Intermediate German I 4.00 credits.
GER 212 - PLO Intermediate German II 4.00 credits.
GER 311 - Making of Modern German Society 4.00 credits.
JA 211 - PLO Second Year Japanese 1 4.00 credits.
JA 212 - PLO Second Year Japanese 2 4.00 credits.
JA 311 - Third Year Japanese 1 4.00 credits.
JA 312 - Third Year Japanese 2 4.00 credits.
SP 211 - PLO Intermediate Spanish I 4.00 credits.
SP 212 - PLO Intermediate Spanish II 4.00 credits.
SP 312 - Modern Spain 4.00 credits.
MU 225 - NCH Silk Road Soundscapes of Compassion, Healing, and Care 4.00 credits.
WGS 205 - WCH Writing Trauma and Resilience 4.00 credits.
One course in counseling skills:
SW 280 - Multicultural Counseling Skills 4.00 credits. or
PSY 355 - Counseling Psychology 4.00 credits.