Health Humanities Concentration

Billie Tadros, Program Director

The Health Humanities Concentration emphasizes the integral role played historically and presently by the humanities in shaping and transforming healthcare, health, and well-being. It aims not only to provide a comprehensive humanistic education to the students enrolled in the programs for the health professions, but also to develop new pedagogical practices informed by interdisciplinarity, experiential and community-based learning, and diversity and intercultural competence.

All students who declare the concentration will apply 18 credits to it. In addition, students must complete ten hours of service, community-based, and/or experiential learning. (Students can complete these hours either by taking elective courses toward the concentration that include community-based learning or experiential learning, or by completing the requirement independently. Students who opt to complete the requirement independently should speak with the program director for approval and then submit a reflection journal on their hours following completion and prior to graduation.) All students will submit a final portfolio representing their achievement of the Health Humanities Concentration program learning outcomes.

Curriculum Requirements (18 credits total)

Core Requirements (6 cr., or 3 cr. for students who have already placed at the 300-level of a world language other than English):  Students must take ENLT 224 - (CL, D, EPW) Perspectives in Literature About Illness .

Students must also have three transcripted credits of a world language other than English, or they must have placed at the 300-level of a language, as determined by the University’s Language Learning Center. (Students who have already placed at the 300-level of a world language other than English may apply these three credits to an additional humanities elective, as outlined below.)

Humanities and Health Elective Courses:

Students must take a combination of humanities elective and health elective courses.  A student may apply no more than six credits of courses with any one prefix to the concentration.

Humanities Electives (6 cr., or 9 cr. for students who have already placed at the 300-level of a world language other than English)

• CHS 330 - Introduction to Art Therapy  
• ENLT 254 - (CL, D) “Bodybuilding”: Narratives of Health and Ability  
• PHIL 212 - (P) Medical Ethics  
• PHIL 337 - (P) The Art of Living  
• SPAN 315 - Spanish for the Health Professions  
• SPAN 324 - (D, CL) Latin American Fictions of the Body  
• SPAN 335 - (D) Service and the Hispanic Community  
• T/RS 226 - (P) Faith and Healing: God and Contemporary Medicine  
• T/RS 246 - (P) Religion, Bodies, and the Brain  
• T/RS 295 - (P, D) Christianity in Africa  
• T/RS 332 - (P, D, EPW) Theology and Disability  
• T/RS 340 - (P, EPW) Theologies of Work and Rest  

Health Electives (6 cr.)

• BIOL 141 - (E) (FYOC, FYDT Lab only) General Biology  
• BIOL 142 - (E) (FYOC, FYDT Lab only) General Biology  
• BIOL 204 - (E, D) Environmental Issues in Latin America    
• CHS 333 - (D) Multiculturalism in Counseling and Human Services  
• CHS 338 - Poverty, Homelessness and Social Justice  
• HADM 315 - (D) Cultural Diversity and Health Administration  
• HADM 331 - International Health Care  
• HADM 395 - Global Health Care Systems  
• HPRO 230 - (D, S) Multicultural Health  
• HPRO 310 - (EPW, S) Behavior Theory in Health Promotion Practice  
• INTD 211 - (D, E) HIV/AIDS: Biological, Social and Cultural Issues  
• NURS 233 - Genetics for the Healthcare Professional  
• NURS 310 - (D) Understanding Transcultural Health Care  
• NURS 314 - Principles of Nursing Ethics   
• PSYC 228 - Health Psychology  
• PSYC 237 - (D, S) Psychology of Women