MINOR IN MEDICAL HUMANITIES

ADMISSION PROCESS
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. A Medical Humanities Education Committee will evaluate applications, and they will be judged on overall academic merit. Application forms can be obtained from the Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts, College of Science and Mathematics, and the Honors College. Completed applications should be submitted to the College of Liberal Arts, Gambrell Hall, room 252.

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.

Required Course: PHIL 312, Medical Ethics

Group A (Choose at least three of the following courses):

• ANTH 551, (= HPRE 551) Medical Anthropology: Fieldwork
• ANTH 552, (= HPRE 552) Medical Anthropology
• ANTH 565, Health and Disease in the Past
• ANTH 568, Nutritional Anthropology
• ECON 531, Health Economics
• GINT 374, Public Policy
• HIST 451, The History of American Medicine
• HIST 452, The History of Science in America
• PHIL 211, Contemporary Moral Issues
• PHIL 315, History and Philosophy of Science
• PHIL 512, 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)
• PSYC 410, Survey of Abnormal Psychology (Prereq: PSYC 101 or SCCC 130)
• PSYC 465, Health Psychology (Prereq: PSYC 101 or SCCC 130)
• SCCC 430K, Behavioral Medicine
• SCCC 457F, Literature and AIDS
• SOCY 313, Sociology of Aging (Prereq: SOCY 101)
• SOCY 322, Sociology of Suicide (Prereq: SOCY 101)
• SOCY 341, Sociology of Death and Dying (Prereq: SOCY 101)
• SOCY 360, Sociology of Medicine and Health (Prereq: SOCY 101)
• SOCY 460, Sociology of Mental Health (Prereq: SOCY 101)
• WOST 113, Women and Their Bodies in Health and Disease
• WOST 541, (=NURS 541) Issues in Women's Health

Group B (One or two courses may be selected from the following):

• ANTH 364, Human Variation
• ANTH 557, Psychological Anthropology
• CLAS 230, Medical and Scientific Terminology
• PHRM 446, Pharmaceutical Law (Prereq: second semester standing)
• CRJU 543, Criminal Justice and Mental Health
• FINA 341, Management of Risk and Insurance
• NURS 302, Community as Client
• NURS 403, Policies and Politics
• SOWK 302, Foundations of Social Welfare

* Courses are subject to change. Currently Offered courses are listed in the Master Schedule. New courses are added regularly.

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