Biomedical Humanities

Minor Requirements

Because humanities issues in health care are of great concern across many disciplines today, and because many of our students envision themselves serving in the health care professions in the future, we offer a minor in health care humanities. This minor, composed of interdisciplinary and departmental courses, emphasizes the ethical, religious, social, economic, and other non-technological issues in health care, and it addresses the complexities of solving health care problems. For students considering going on to careers in medicine, medical technology and research, nursing, counseling, social work, ministry, etc., this minor infuses humanities perspectives and concerns into the training they are getting in sciences and social sciences. It also complements traditional majors in the humanities.

The minor consists of a minimum 20 semester hours of courses chosen from the following:

At least two Interdisciplinary courses
* Interdisciplinary 360: Topics in Literature and Medicine: Literature and Aging
* Interdisciplinary 361: Topics in Literature and Medicine: What’s Normal ?
* Interdisciplinary 362: Topics in Literature and Medicine: The Ethics and Literature of Caring
* Interdisciplinary 307: Disease and History
* Interdisciplinary 309: Science, Values, and Technology
* Interdisciplinary 302: Narrative Bioethics
* Interdisciplinary 370: Uses and Abuses of Power in Health Care
* Interdisciplinary 372: Literary Anatomies: Women’s Bodies and Health in Literature

At least three other courses chosen either from Category I. above, or from the following list:
* Biology/Psychology 215: Experimental Methods
* Biology 1XX or Chemistry 101: Chemistry in Context
* Communication 280: Health Care Communications
* Management 280: Legal Ethics
* Philosophy 219: Medical Ethics
* Psychology 250: Development Across the Life Span
* Psychology 361: Introduction to Counseling and Clinical Psychology
* Religious Studies 215: Death and Dying

Service Learning Experience:
BIMD minors must also participate in one externship including a minimum of 30 contact hours in a health care setting.
* BIMD 610: Service in a Health Care Setting
* PSYC 610: Working with Severely Handicapped Children
* PSYC 612: Incapacitated Older People in a Residential Setting

Senior Seminar: Students completing the minor will participate in BIMD 480, senior seminar (description above).

Last updated 13 May 2008