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The Medical Humanities and Health Studies program offers a range of courses that allow you to explore health and medicine from a variety of perspectives.
For up-to-the-minute course listings, including enrollment information, see the Office of the Registrar.
Intro Courses
MHHS M201 Introduction to Medical Humanities and Health Studies
MHHS M301 Perspectives on Health, Disease, and Healing (mandatory for MHHS majors and minors)
Advanced Courses
MHHS M325 Ancient Medicine and Modern Terminology
MHHS M390 A Body of Law: Medicine, Humanities & Law
MHHS M410 Addiction Narratives
MHHS M420 The Culture of Mental Illness
MHHS M425/Afro A301 Black Health and the Humanities
MHHS M492 Topics in MHHS: Ethics and Policy in Organ Transplantation
MHHS M492 Topics in MHHS: Finding Frankenstein
MHHS M492 Topics in MHHS: Motherhood in Medical Humanities
MHHS M492 Topics in MHHS: Dramatic Literature & Medicine
MHHS M492 Topics in MHHS: Playwriting and Medicine
MHHS M498 Independent Project/ Seminar in Medical Humanities and Health Studies
MHHS M498 Readings in Medical Humanities and Health Studies
MHHS M504 Intro to Research Ethics
MHHS M592 Graduate Topics in Medical Humanities
MHHS M595 Clinical Practicum in Medical Humanities
MHHS M598 Graduate Readings in Medical Humanities
ANTH B474 Forensic Anthropology
ECON E387 Health Economics
COMM C392 Health Communication
HIST H364 The History of Medicine and Public Health
PHIL P393 Biomedical Ethics
REL R368 Religion and Healing
SOC R327 Social Factors in Health and Illness
SOC R385 AIDS and Society
Experiential Learning
MHHS M480 Kindred Hospice Experience is a unique, 1 credit experiential course in which you can serve as a hospice volunteer – a life-changing experience for many students.
Capstone Course
When pursuing a major in MHHS, you will complete your education with a capstone seminar (MHHS M495). The capstone seminar will allow you to apply the knowledge gained from the course work taken in the Medical Humanities and Health Studies Program, serving to tie together the humanistic and social scientific bases of health care in a directed endeavor tailored to your interests.