MINOR IN MEDICAL HUMANITIES This minor is designed primarily for students intending to go into medicine. It will provide an
understanding of the ethical issues as well as a selective examination of sociocultural, legal,
economic, and political factors that condition medical knowledge and practice. The minor will
also be valuable for students interested in health law or other areas directly related to the health
professions.
Application: Students must complete an application, and qualify for the medical humanities
minor. Applications can be submitted any time after the freshman year (30 credit hours
completed). Normally, students will be expected to have at least a 3.3 grade point ratio.
Applications will be evaluated by a Medical Humanities Education Committee, and they will be
judged on overall academic merit. Application forms can be obtained from the Department of
Philosophy, College of Arts and Sciences (Flinn 110), and the Honors College.
Opportunity to Participate in Honors College Courses: Several courses in the medical humanities
minor will be offered as honors courses. Students minoring in medical humanities will be able to
take these courses, and they will have priority in registration, even over Honors College students
who are not minoring in medical humanities. This will provide students outside of the Honors
College with the opportunity to do extensive course work in the Honors College.
Requirements: 18 credit hours are required to satisfy the minor. There is one required course (3
credit hours). Three additional courses (9 credit hours) must be chosen from offerings in Group
A. Remaining courses (6 credit hours) can be chosen from either Group A or Group B.
Additional Honors proseminars in the medical humanities may satisfy minor requirements in
either Group A or B, provided the course substitutions are approved by the Medical Humanities
Education Committee. No more than one course may be used from your major field of study in
the minor unless given special permission via the Medical Humanities Committee. The
justification would need to be emailed to Dawn Hiller, [email protected], so she can confer with the
committee for a decision.
*Course substitutions approved by the Medical Humanities Education Committee.
Required Course:
PHIL 321 (was 312)
Medical Ethics
Group A: Choose at least three of the following courses:
AFRO 330 [= PSYC 330]
Psychology of the African-American Experience
(approved for Spring 2003)
ANTH 551 [=HPEB 551]
Revised April 2011 MINORINMEDICALHUMANITIESF08 Medical Anthropology: Fieldwork
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ANTH 565
ANTH 568
Medical Anthropology
Health and Disease in the Past
Nutritional Anthropology
CLAS 360 [=PHIL 360]*
Origin of Western Medical Ethics
(approved for Spring 2000)
ECON 531
Health Economics
ENGL 429J*
Doctors and Patients
(approved for Fall 2000)
ENGL 490H
Medicine, Literature, and Film
(approved for Spring 2008)
HIST 451
HIST 452
The History of American Medicine
The History of Science in America
HPEB 492 [= SOST 500]
Southern Dis-Comfort –Public Health in the American South
(approved for Spring 2010)
HPEB 502
Applied Aspects Human Nutrition
(approved for Spring 2010)
HPEB 513
HPEB 551 [=ANTH 551]
HPEB 552 [=ANTH 552]
US Ethnic Minorities and Health (approved for Spring 2011)
Medical Anthropology: Fieldwork
Medical Anthropology
PHIL 312
Classical Origins of Western Medical Ethics
(approved for Spring 2010)
PHIL 360 (was 315)
History and Philosophy of Science
PHIL 323 (was 317)
Ethics of Science and Technology
PHIL 312 (was 360) [=CLAS 360]* Origin of Western Medical Ethics
(approved for Spring 2000)
PSYC 330 [=AFRO 330]*
Psychology of the African-American Experience
(approved for Spring 2003)
PSYC 410
Survey of Abnormal Psychology
(Prereq: PSYC 101 or SCHC
PSYC 465
130)
Health Psychology
(Prereq: PSYC 101 or SCHC 130)
RELG 594H *
Religion and Healing
(approved for Fall 2006)
SCHC 330N*
Revised April 2011 MINORINMEDICALHUMANITIESF08 Psychology’s Social Impact
Page 2 SCHC 331D*
SCHC 332A
SCHC 332Y*
SCHC 360N*
SCHC 360O*
SCHC 361O*
SCHC 362R*
SCHC 364G
SCHC 383O*
SCHC 383Q*
SCHC 384I*
SCHC 386F*
SCHC 391C*
SCHC 402C
SCHC 430I*
SCHC 430K
SCHC 430R*
SCHC 432F*
SCHC 433K*
SCHC 457F
SCHC 460B*
Revised April 2011 MINORINMEDICALHUMANITIESF08 (approved for Spring 1998)
Suicide and Literature
(approved for Fall 1999)
Sugar In the Blood: Cultural Beliefs, Attitudes, and
Treatment of Diabetes in the African American Community
(approved Fall 2009)
Narratives of Illness/Healing
(approved for Fall 2005)
Ethics of Inquiry
(approved for Spring 2003)
Enhancing Humans
(approved for Fall 2003)
Religiosity & Traditional Medicine
(approved for Spring 1999)
Religion and Healing
(approved for Fall 2006)
Making the Connections between Latino Health, Culture,
and Community Outreach
(approved for Fall 2010)
Islamic Science & Medicine
(approved for Fall 1999)
Neuroethics
(approved for Fall 2005)
Alien Bodies: Science Fiction & Bioethics
(approved for Fall 1998)
Neurobiology of Culture
(approved for Fall 2001)
Practicing Medicine
(approved for Spring 2004)
So You Want to be a Doctor? A Reality-Based Class on
Transitioning into Medical School and Residency
(approved for Fall 2009)
Alternative Medicine
(approved for Fall 2000)
Behavioral Medicine
Sociobiology of Women and Men
(approved for Fall 2001)
Cultures of Symb. Healing
(approved for Spring 1999)
Health Policy
(approved for Spring 1998)
Literature and AIDS
Self and Psychopathology
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SCHC 476E
SCHC 480J*
SCHC 484D*
SCHC 484E*
SCHC 484F*
SCHC 484I
SOCY 313
SOCY 322
SOCY 341
SOCY 360
SOCY 460
(approved for Spring 1998)
Facing Immortality
(approved for Fall 2009)
Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
(approved for Fall 2010)
Health Law and Policy
(approved for Fall 2000)
Facing Mortality
(approved for Spring 2000)
Healing Art of Music
(approved for Spring 2001)
Nanomedicine
(approved for Spring 2005)
Plagues, Pandemics and Public Perception
(approved for Spring 2011)
Sociology of Aging
(Prereq.: SOCY 101)
Sociology of Suicide
(Prereq. : SOCY 101)
Sociology of Death and Dying
(Prereq.: SOCY 101)
Sociology of Medicine and Health
(Prereq.: SOCY 101)
Sociology of Mental Health
(Prereq. SOCY 101)
UNIV 401D*
Senior Capstone Experience: Transitioning to Medical
School
(approved for Fall 2001 and Spring 2002)
WOST 113
WOST 541 [=NURS 541]
Women and Their Bodies in Health and Disease
Issues in Women's Health
Group B: One or two courses may be selected from the following:
ANTH 364
Human Variation
ANTH 391S [=SCHC432O] Anthropology of Sex
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Psychological Anthropology
CLAS 230
Medical and Scientific Terminology
CRJU 543
Criminal Justice and Mental Health
FINA 341
Management of Risk and Insurance
HPEB 684
HIV/AIDS Education
PHIL 211
PHIL 512
Contemporary Moral Issues
Philosophy of Science
(Prereq: 3 hours in philosophy beyond the 100-level or consent
of instructor)
PHIL 514
Recent Ethical Theory
(Prereq: PHIL 312 or consent of instructor)
PHIL 550
Health Care Ethics
(Prereq: 3 hours in philosophy beyond the 100-level or consent
of instructor)
POLI 374
Public Policy
NURS 302
NURS 403
Community as Client
Policies and Politics
PHIL 330 (was 314) [=POLI 300] Social and Political Philosophy
(approved for Fall 2006)
PHRM 446
Pharmaceutical Law
(Prereq: second semester standing)
POLI 300 [= PHIL 314]
Social and Political Philosophy
(approved for Fall 2006)
SCHC 281B*
Nanotechnology: Promise and Peril
(approved for Spring 2004)
Anthropology of Science
(approved for Spring 2002)
Cannon and Catapult
(approved for Fall 2009)
Darwin’s Achievement
(approved for Spring 1999)
Darwinism in Germany
SCHC 332U*
SCHC 359J
SCHC 360J*
SCHC 365G*
Revised April 2011 MINORINMEDICALHUMANITIESF08 Page 5 SCHC 366O*
SCHC 380K*
SCHC 386D*
SCHC 386J*
SCHC 389B*
SCHC 394A*
SCHC 397A*
SCHC 430N*
SCHC 430O*
SCHC 430V*
SCHC 430P*
SCHC 430Q*
SCHC 431C*
SCHC 432H*
SCHC 432O
SCHC 457J*
SCHC 484H*
SOWK 302
Revised April 2011 MINORINMEDICALHUMANITIESF08 Artists and Cadavers
(approved for Fall 2002)
Philosophy of Technology
(approved for Fall 1998)
Creation, Evolution, & Naturalism
(approved for Spring 1999)
Brain and Evolution
The Science of Serving Others
(approved for Fall 2006)
Great Books: Science
(approved for Fall 1998)
Great Books: Science II
(approved for Fall 2000)
Brain and Language
(approved for Spring 1999)
Brain and Behavior
(approved for Fall 1998)
Brain and Behavior
(suffix changed in Spring 2010)
Dev. Brain and Child Behavior
(approved for Spring 1999)
Poverty and Child Development
(approved for Spring 2001)
Psychiatric Revolutions
(approved for Spring 1998)
Cultures of Smoking
(approved for Spring 2002)
Anthropology of Sex
Literature and Psychoanalysis
(approved for Spring 2001)
America’s Pain Crisis
(approved for Fall 2006)
Foundations of Social Welfare
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